On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:48:57PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > 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.
Make them classmethods though, like dict.fromkeys. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
