On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 09:17 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Regarding open vs. opentext, I'm still not sure. I don't want to > generalize from the openbytes precedent to openstr or openunicode > (especially since the former is wrong in 2.x and the latter is wrong > in 3.0). I'm tempting to hold out for open() since it's most > compatible.
If we go with two functions, I'd much rather hang them off of the file type object then add two new builtins. I really do think file.bytes() and file.text() (a.k.a. open.bytes() and open.text()) is better than opentext() or openbytes(). -Barry
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