[Python-3000] please keep open() as a builtin, and general concerns about Py3k complexity

[Steve Howell]

--- Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

> ISTM that many modules using open() do also use
> os.path
> utilities to create the filename given to open(). In
> that
> case, you have an import statement in any case.
> 

Not the case for us:

  154 modules call only open()
  11 modules call only os.path.join()
  20 modules do call both

But to your larger point, 80 out of the 174 modules
that call open() do say "import os" for other reasons.




       
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