Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 18:29 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Maybe a weird idea, but why not use static methods on the >> bytes and str type objects for this ?! >> >> E.g. bytes.openfile(...) and unicode.openfile(...) (in 3.0 >> renamed to str.openfile()) > > That's also not a bad idea, but I'd leave off one or the other of the > redudant "open" and "file" parts. E.g. bytes.open() and unicode.open() > seem fine to me (we all know what 'open' means, right? :).
Thinking about it, I like your idea better (file.bytes() and file.text()). Anyway, as long as we don't start adding openthis() and openthat() I guess I'm happy ;-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 15 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ 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