Used to 'file = open(...)', now what?

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

I'm very used to the following construct:

  file = open("whatever", flags)
  buf = file.readlines()
  file.close()

But with Python 2.2 file() is a builtin constructor, making open
deprecated, possibly dropped in a future version. Now what would
be the "usual" way to name file variables without hiding the
constructor?

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