In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul McGuire wrote:
> 1. open("xxx") still works - not sure if it's even deprecated or not - but
> the new style is to use the file class
It's not deprecated and may be still used for opening files. I guess the
main reason for introducing `file` as a synonym was the possibility to
inherit from builtins. Inheriting from `open` looks quite strange.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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