Aahz wrote: > Python 2.5a2 (trunk:46052, May 19 2006, 19:54:46) > [GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> open is file > False > > Per the other comments in this thread, Guido agreed that making open() a > synonym of file() was a mistake, and my patch to split them was accepted. > Still need to do more doc update (per Uncle Timmy complaint), but that > shouldn't be too hard.
Interesting. What is the difference between them now? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
