Jonathan Roach added the comment:
OK, I understand that the older versions aren't going to be revised - that
makes sense.
I think part of the reason I submitted this is the reader's path from the
open() documentation to the most relevant part of the io documentation (the
interface) is long an
R. David Murray added the comment:
The tutorial links are definitely bugs, and the section may need some tweaking.
The 'file object' documentation is replaced by the io module, which completely
defines the file object API. There is a link from the 'file object' glossary
entry to the IO modul