[Python-Dev] outstanding items for 2.5

[Aahz]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Done. What exactly do you plan to do apart from editing the docs to
> steer people away from file()?

For the initial checkin, the dirt-simple:

def open(filename, *args, **kwargs):
    return file(filename, *args, **kwargs)

At this point, the sole purpose is to kill open() as a simple alias for
file() and turn it into a factory function that can be documented
separately (and have its own help() info).  Further extensions can be
done later.  Because this is file I/O, there is no reason to even think
of performance improvements in the call.
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