On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rod...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/5/12 Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar>: >> open() in Python 3 does a lot of things; it's like a mix of codecs.open() + >> builtin open() + os.fdopen() from 2.x all merged together. It does different >> things depending on the type and quantity of its arguments, and even returns >> objects of different types. >> >> In particular, open(some_integer) assumes some_integer is a file descriptor >> and return some variant of file object using the given file descriptor. > > Interesting. I wasn't aware of this. > Is it documented somewhere? >
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/functions.html#open -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
