On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:40 AM, charles-francois.natali <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bf609baff4d3 changeset:   74315:bf609baff4d3 user:        Charles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr> date:        Mon Jan 09 22:40:02 2012 +0100 summary:  Issue #12760: Add a create mode to open(). Patch by David Townshend.

To help make the 'x' more intuitive, it would be helpful if the mode was referred to as "exclusive create" in the docs (at least once, anyway), and the What's New entry stated explicitly that 'x' is used based on the C11 precedent. Otherwise, I'm sure I'll be far from the only one thinking "why not 'c'?". People shouldn't have to go read the tracker item to find out the reason 'x' is used instead of 'c'. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia