Why no open(f, "w").write()?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 29-May-2002 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 24 May 2002 07:53:38 GMT, Markus Demleitner
> <msdemlei at tucana.cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>> 
>> The Jython docs state that
>> open("some.name", "w").write(stuff)
>> is bad programming practice (and indeed claim that in Jython,
>> the above construct leaves some.name empty).
> 
>     I can't speak for Jython, but in CPython 2.1, it works fine. 
> 
>>>> stuff = "stuff to write"
>>>> open('stufffile', "w").write(stuff)
>>>> open('stufffile', "r").read()
> 'stuff to write'
> 

yes, but can you disagree with the statement that it is bad programming
practice.  I sure can't.