Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> added the comment: Certainly. Here is my secret grep: $ cd py3k/Doc $ grep -n --color=auto -d skip -I --exclude-dir .svn --exclude-dir .hg -R open\(.*\).read *.rst c-api distutils documenting extending faq howto library reference tutorial using List without false positives: faq/library.rst library/pkgutil.rst library/atexit.rst library/pipes.rst library/cmd.rst library/logging.rst library/difflib.rst library/collections.rst tutorial/interpreter.rst tutorial/stdlib2.rst List for open(.*).write: faq/library.rst library/ftplib.rst library/atexit.rst There is probably a better regex that would catch “open(.*).[valid method name]”, but I hate regexes. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10461> _______________________________________