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

[Ulrich Petri]

"Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz" <gradha at titanium.sabren.com> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:mailman.1052340133.18435.python-list at python.org...
> 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?
>

what about:
some_other_name_for_a_file_var = open('dsfsdf','r')

????

Did you mean that question?

Ciao Ulrich