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

[Gustavo Cordova]

> 
>    Of course, if write() returned the file object instead of nothing,
> one could use something like:
> 
> 	open(f, "w").write(data).close()
> 
> but that might not be Pythonic enough (or too C++-y) for some.
> 
> 					Gary Duzan
> 					BBN Technologies
> 					A Verizon Company
> 

Well, subclassing is your friend!

-- snip --
class File(file):
  def write(self, data):
    file.write(self, data)
    return self
-- snip --

So now you can have your cake and eat it too. :-)

Or, a "quickfile" kind of thing:

-- snip --
def WriteFile(filename, mode="w", *data):
  f = file(filename,mode)
  for item in data: f.write(item)
  f.close()
-- snip --

ta-daa. Trivial problems demand trivial solutions.

-gustavo