open(False) in python3

[Kushal Kumaran]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/12 Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>:
>> open() in Python 3 does a lot of things; it's like a mix of codecs.open() +
>> builtin open() + os.fdopen() from 2.x all merged together. It does different
>> things depending on the type and quantity of its arguments, and even returns
>> objects of different types.
>>
>> In particular, open(some_integer) assumes some_integer is a file descriptor
>> and return some variant of file object using the given file descriptor.
>
> Interesting. I wasn't aware of this.
> Is it documented somewhere?
>

http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/functions.html#open

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regards,
kushal