[Python-Dev] Re: file() or open()?

[Terry Reedy]

"François Pinard" <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message
news:20040707183033.GA30577 at alcyon.progiciels-bpi.ca...
> I perceived the introduction of `file()' as a nice cleanup in Python.

As a user, so did I.  I like the cosistency of using file along with int,
tuple, list, dict, type, (and did I leave out something), and all user
classes as constructors of instances of themselves.

Terry J. Reedy