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

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 24 May 2002 07:53:38 GMT, Markus Demleitner
<msdemlei at tucana.cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> 
> The Jython docs state that
> open("some.name", "w").write(stuff)
> is bad programming practice (and indeed claim that in Jython,
> the above construct leaves some.name empty).

    I can't speak for Jython, but in CPython 2.1, it works fine. 

>>> stuff = "stuff to write"
>>> open('stufffile', "w").write(stuff)
>>> open('stufffile', "r").read()
'stuff to write'

    Mike

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