On 5/12/2010 1:26 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà 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.
The change actually happened, according to 'What's new', in 2.6 when
'open' was made a synonym for the new io.open.
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?
Right where it should be, in the entry for 'open' under 'built-in
functions': "file is either ... or an integer file descriptor of the
file to be wrapped"
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