Terry Reedy dixit (2010-05-12, 14:26): > On 5/12/2010 1:26 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote: > >2010/5/12 Gabriel Genellina<gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar>: > >>open() in Python 3 does a lot of things; it's like a mix of codecs.open() + > >>builtin open() + os.fdopen() from 2.x all merged together. It does different > >>things depending on the type and quantity of its arguments, and even returns > >>objects of different types. > > The change actually happened, according to 'What's new', in 2.6 when > 'open' was made a synonym for the new io.open.
It did happened in 3.0, not in 2.6. Regards, *j -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list