[Python-Dev] file() vs open(), round 7

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>>> can we add a opentext factory for file/codecs.open while we're at it ?
>> Why a new factory function ? Can't we just redirect to codecs.open()
>> in case an encoding keyword argument is passed to open() ?!
> 
> I think open is overloaded enough as it is.  Using separate functions for distinct
> use cases is also a lot better than keyword trickery.

Fair enough.

> Here's a rough draft:
> 
>     def textopen(name, mode="r", encoding=None):
>         if "U" not in mode:
>             mode += "U"

The "U" is not needed when opening files using codecs -
these always break lines using .splitlines() which
breaks lines according to the Unicode rules and also
knows about the various line break variants on different
platforms.

>         if encoding:
>             return codecs.open(name, mode, encoding)
>         return file(name, mode)

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