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

[Robert Brewer]

Guido van Rossum 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.

I must be dense, because I don't see how the proposal "makes it easier
to identify modules that engage in I/O". Who's supposed to be doing the
identification and when? And how will it not be fooled by __import__ and
plain 'ol cross-module references?


Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org