Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > Is "an open file descriptor" correct in English? I'd have written "an > opened file descriptor" instead (in 5 places).
"open" is correct. For example, you say "the store is open", not "the store is opened": "open" is an adjective, whereas "opened" is the past participe. See http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/15771-open-opened-welcome-welcomed.html ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12797> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com