On 2007-08-08, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 8, 2:00 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I thought, in fact, that open was on more shaky ground. ;) > > yeah, that too ...
OK, I had misremembered. The current docs say that open is preferred, and that file should rather be used as a type name. > >> I can't find any evidence of that in the PEPs. Do you have a reference? > > here is something: > > http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/p3yk/Misc/NEWS?rev=56685&view=auto > > look for : > > - Removed these Python builtins: > apply(), callable(), coerce(), file(), reduce(), reload() Thanks very much. -- Neil Cerutti Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. --Marion Barry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list