[Python-Dev] Rename str/unicode to text (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Feb 17 12:23:44 CET 2006

Michael Hudson wrote:

> OTOH, even if we didn't rename str/unicode to text, opentext would > still be a good name for the function that opens a text file.

Hnnrgh, not really. You're not opening a 'text', nor are you constructing something that might reasonably be called an 'opentext'. textfile() seems better.

except that in Python, file is a type, and open is an action.

but I agree that textfile reads better (haven't we been through this a couple of times already, btw? iirc, my original textfile proposal was posted in 1846, or so)

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