Still the word "open" sounds too general if the meaning is "open a file-like
object"; OTOH this
could be a good thing if in some future version "open('http://www.python.org')"
was e.g. an alias to
urllib2.urlopen.
Exactly the reason the BDFL gave for preferring 'open' - it may be extended to opening other types of objects than files.
Cheers, Nick.
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