On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:37 -0800, Alex Martelli wrote: > What about shorter names, such as 'text' instead of 'opentext' and > 'data' instead of 'openbinary'? By eschewing the 'open' prefix we > might make it easy to eventually migrate off it. Maybe text and data > could be two subclasses of file, with file remaining initially as it > is (and perhaps becoming an abstract-only baseclass at the time 'open' > is deprecated).
I was actually thinking about static methods file.text() and file.data() which seem nicely self descriptive, if a little bit longer. -Barry
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