<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Ewing</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nick Coghlan wrote:<br><br>> What would the signature of the file constructor be in that case?<br><br>If it's possible to call it at all, I think it would<br>have to take a file descriptor, or whatever the<br>platform's OS-level representation of an open file
<br>is.<br><br>The other possibility is to just raise an exception<br>if you call file() from Python code.</blockquote><div><br>I am going with raising an exception.<br><br>-Brett <br></div><br></div>