> =============================================================== > if I want to write, I don't open for reading (plus or not plus) > ===============================================================
I was thinking the same thing. I know python is only following C, which is good, but the flags are confusing. I'll bet that when fopen() was first written, they had only 'r', and 'w'. Then, when that was working they thought, "but what if we want to read and write on the same handle". So they tacked on the '+' to mean, "Let me do the other thing too". -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
