New submission from Lars Gustäbel: Today I accidentally did this:
open(True).read() Passing True as a file argument to open() does not fail, because a bool value is treated like an integer file descriptor (stdout in this case). Even worse is that the read() call hangs in an endless loop on my linux box. On windows I get an EBADF at least. Wouldn't it be better if open() checked explicitly for a bool argument and raises a TypeError? ---------- components: IO messages: 170550 nosy: lars.gustaebel priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: open() should not accept bool argument type: behavior versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15950> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
