Proposed extension to file constructor

[Taral]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:36:09AM -0400, Oren Tirosh wrote:
> One example of why you might want a file subclass is to extend the
> functionality of the object returned by popen with new methods (e.g.
> retrieving process the exit code). Why should adding a single method
> require the implementation of a complete wrapper object? Another
> functionality that is available only for a true file object and not
> for subclasses is to set the name field to an arbitrary value such as
> '(fdopen)' or a process name.

Another reason is that PyFile_AsFile only works on real file objects.

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