In article <518c5bbc$0$29997$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I must admit I am astonished at how controversial the opinion "if your > object is useless until you call 'start', you should automatically call > 'start' when the object is created" has turned out to be. I'm sorry. I thought you were here for an argument. I think where things went pear shaped is when you made the statement: >> There is no sensible use-case for creating a file OBJECT unless it >> initially wraps an open file pointer. That's a pretty absolute point of view. Life is rarely so absolute. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list