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

[Brett C.]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

[SNIP]
> In the future, I could see
> open() become a factory function again that could return an instance
> of a different class depending on the mode argument, the default
> encoding for files, or who knows what; but file will always remain a
> class.

How is this case different from the whole unicode.encode thread and the 
worry of having different types of objects returned based on the 
argument?  I would assume that any objects returned would follow the 
file interface roughly.

-Brett