ANN: experimental patch to allow importing from file-like objects

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <3C817D5C.24C26C3F at earthlink.net>, Hans Nowak wrote:
>Gerson Kurz wrote:
>
[...]
>I don't know much about 2.2 yet, but I think the
>preferred method is subclassing file, then opening a
>file through the subclass's constructor (rather than
>through open()). For example:

open *is* file. (Just take a closer look.)

So you should subclass file (i.e. open) -- and of course you'd then
use the constructor of that class, not the constructor of your
superclass (which would be file or open, which are one and the same).

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