My own 12 points list

[Andrew Dalke]

A. Lloyd Flanagan:
> open() is deprecated [in favor of 'file'], I don't know about plans
> to eliminate it.

I think formally speaking it isn't deprecated.  The docs say open
is "An alias for the file() function"

http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/lib/built-in-funcs.html


                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com