New submission from Ilaï : Documentation for the pipes module indicates that the second argument of open() is "mode", but it is actually "rw". Python 3.7.4 (default, Oct 4 2019, 06:57:26) [GCC 9.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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from pipes import Template; Template().open('/tmp/f', mode='r') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: open() got an unexpected keyword argument 'mode'

Python 2.7.16 (default, Mar 11 2019, 18:59:25) [GCC 8.2.1 20181127] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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from pipes import Template; Template().open('/tmp/f', mode='r') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: open() got an unexpected keyword argument 'mode'

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pipes.html#pipes.Template.open ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 354781 nosy: docs@python, ilai priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Wrong argument name in documentation for pipes.Template.open versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker https://bugs.python.org/issue38497 _______________________________________