[Tutor] quick question to open(filename, 'r') vs. file(filename, 'r')
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed May 6 02:04:12 CEST 2009
"Larry Riedel" <Larry at Riedel.org> wrote
> It may not be a good reason, but I like that "open"
> is preferred, because in Java a "File" object is not
> a stream for the content in the file, just its directory
> entry, and simply creating a File object does not
> open the file at all.
I'm not sure citing anything Java does is a good rationale in
Python! Hopefully we can do rather better than the horrors
of Java :-)
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Alan Gauld
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