[Python-3000] Radical idea: remove built-in open (require import io)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 5/17/07, Chris Monson <shiblon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would other IO builtins also move, like (formerly raw_) input and
> print?  What about the file type?

The file type is already gone in py3k.

> it seems to me that if the rationale is to make use of IO
> identifiable, then all IO functions would have to move into the io
> module.  What am I missing?

I guess a refinement of the point is that you need the io module to
create new I/O streams, while input() and print() act on existing
streams. Code that makes read() and write() calls doesn't need to
import the io module either, so we're not really making all I/O
identifiable, just the open() calls.

--Guido

> - C
>
> On 5/17/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > Do people think it would be too radical if the built-in open()
> > function was removed altogether, requiring all code that opens files
> > to import the io module first? This would make it easier to identify
> > modules that engage in I/O.
> >
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