[Python-Dev] open() mode is lax (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 16 03:53:24 CET 2006


I've just noticed that (in 2.3.4) open() seems to accept just about anything after the first character of the mode argument:

Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun 30 2004, 16:47:37) [GCC 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

f = open("DU", "rqwerty")

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