Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/9/2012 10:08 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Neal Becker<ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Doesn't anyone else think it would be a good addition to open to specify a >>> file >>> creation mode? Like posix open? Avoid all these nasty workarounds? >> >> I do, although I'm hesitant, because this only applies when mode == >> 'w', and open has a large and growing list of parameters. > > The buffer parameter (I believe it is) also does not always apply. > > The original open builtin was a thin wrapper around old C's stdio.open. > Open no longer has that constraint. After more discussion here, someone > could open a tracker issue with a specific proposal. Keep in mind that > 'mode' is already a parameter name for the mode of opening, as opposed > to the permission mode for subsequent users. >
I haven't seen the current code - I'd guess it just uses posix open. So I would guess it wouldn't be difficult to add the creation mode argument. How about call it cr_mode? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
