Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Of course, you get the same error with:

>>> f = open('foo', 'wb')
>>> x, y = f
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IOError: File not open for reading

i.e. the tuple assignment iterates over the file, and calls readline()

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