confusion about opening files

[Erik Max Francis]

Mark McEahern wrote:

> I read somewhere that 'file' was preferred to the use of 'open'
> because of
> the symmetry to the type:
> 
>   >>> f = file("junk.txt")
>   >>> type(f)
>   <type 'file'>
> 
> Anyway, that's how I've trained myself to spell 'open'.

It probably is, but only works in more recent versions of Python.  At
any rate, it wasn't what the original poster was asking about, so I
didn't bother addressing it.

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