Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.com> added the comment: So I generally agree that FileType is not what you want for anything but quick scripts that can afford to either leave a file open or to close stdin and/or stdout. However, quick scripts are an important use case for argparse, so I don't think we should get rid of FileType.
What should definitely happen: * Someone should add some documentation explaining the risks of using FileType (e.g. forgetting to close the file, or closing stdin/stdout when you didn't mean to). What could potentially happen if someone really wanted it: * Someone could create a "safe" replacement, e.g. a FileOpenerType that returns an object with open() and close() methods that do the right things (or whatever API makes sense). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13824> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
