On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:33, <pyt...@bdurham.com> wrote: > What is the best practice way to open files in Python 2.6+ > > It looks like there are at least 3 different ways to open files: > - built-in open() > - io.open() > - codecs.open() > > It seems like io.open() combines the best of the built-in open() and the > codecs open(). Am I missing any obvious drawbacks to using io.open() except > for backwards compatibility? > > Thank you, > Malcolm >
As an FYI, the builtin open() uses io.open() on at least 3.1 (maybe also 3.0, don't know). I don't know your use cases or what you get or don't get from any of those options, but the future is io.open. >>> io.open is open True
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