Proposed extension to file constructor

[Taral]

I needed to extend popen functionality, so I modified the file
constructor to optionally take a file descriptor. It was, in my opinion,
the minimum way to do it while preserving isinstance(x, file).

The full discussion and patch is on sourceforge at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=608182&group_id=5470
-- but someone said I should ask here to solicit comment on it.

Anyone?

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