Alex Martelli wrote: > "Type-switching" in this way is a rather dubious practice in any > language (it can't respect the "open-closed" principle). Can't you have > those objects wrapped in suitable wrappers with a "copyorwrite" method > that knows what to do? For example, StringIO.StringIO is a standard > library wrapper type that makes a string look like a file.
That is very reasonable. Thanks again, Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
