Proposed extension to file constructor

[Taral]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:40:28PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     taral> I needed to extend popen functionality, so I modified the file
>     taral> constructor to optionally take a file descriptor. It was, in my
>     taral> opinion, the minimum way to do it while preserving isinstance(x,
>     taral> file).
> 
> Where are you getting file descriptors?  What's wrong with using os.fdopen
> to wrap a file descriptor in a file object?
> 
>     fdopen(...)
>         fdopen(fd [, mode='r' [, bufsize]]) -> file_object
> 
>         Return an open file object connected to a file descriptor.

I can't subclass fdopen.

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