[Python-ideas] Add create mode to open()

[Benjamin Peterson]

David Townshend <aquavitae69 at ...> writes:

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> This idea was proposed in the discussion on shutil.move, but I thought it
would be worth posting separately to avoid confusing the discussion.
> 
> The idea is to add a create mode ('c') to the builtin open() function, which
will have the same effect as os.open(file, os.O_EXCL|os.O_CREAT).  I have added
an issue (http://bugs.python.org/issue12760) for this, including a patch.

I am -1 because

- Possibly not portable or at least subject to implementations of
varying quality.
- No precedence in other languages or fopen() for that matter.
- It's not hard to use os.fdopen().