Why no open(f, "w").write()?

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: John La Rooy [mailto:larooy at xtar.co.nz.avaya.com]
>
> It's unlikely to be explicitly documented. from the docs...
> 
> The file() constructor is new in Python 2.2. The previous 
> spelling, open(),
> is retained for compatibility, and is an alias for file().
> 
> So you shouldn't be using open() in new programs anyway

Yes - but *file objects* have been part of Python for a long time, and the
docs do not state anywhere I could find (I may be wrong) that *file objects*
have a destructor that closes the file.

The name used to create a file object (be it file, open or wibble) is
unimportant.

Tim Delaney