On Mar 18, 5:48 am, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > <mkieverpy <at> tlink.de> schrieb: > > > and I could not find a replacement for 'FileType'. > > Has this been overlooked? > > > Found this thread which does not mention FileType: > >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/stdlib-sig/2008-April/thread.html#172 > > > I guess I just did not see something simple. > > Anyone with a hint? > > That's because this isn't simple. Python 3 doesn't have one file type. It has > several different kinds of streams in the io module. If you're checking for a > file type, you'll want to use isinstance(some_file, io.IOBase). If you're > inheriting form it, I suggest you look at the io module's classes.
Nontheless, a warning would be helpful, possibly with some doc. John Roth -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
