Proposed extension to file constructor

[Taral]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:47:41PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote:
> ... but maybe this is the natural interpretation of file(i) when
> isinstance(i, int).

Yes, I considered this, but there were sufficiently persuasive arguments
against in the sourceforge bug.

> ... and maybe the natural interpretation of file(f) when isinstance(f,
> int) is file(os.dup(f.fileno())) (assuming the above file(i) behavior)

I think you meant "when isinstance(f, file)". This is possible.

> ... and maybe the natural interpretation of file("-") is sys.stdin, and
> file("-", "w") is sys.stdout.

Yuk. What if I want a file called "-"?

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