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On Dec 29, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> But my main objection to suggesting that these constants ought to be
> used is that open() is a built-in but you would have to import os to
> be able to call the seek method on the object it returns.
>
> If we want to make the seek API more 21st century, why not use keyword
> arguments?

Or put the constants on class attributes.

- -Barry

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