Documentation? file/open with tea

[exarkun at divmod.com]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:40:37 -0800, "Eric Pederson" <whereU at now.com> wrote:
>WryPyY's-
> 
> I've come across this file operation in others' code and have not seen any =
> documentation for it: the use of "t" in the mode of file opening, such as:
> 
> f1=3Dopen(somefile, 'at')
> f2=3Dopen(otherfile, 'rt')
> 
> [to be clear, I am talking about 't' tea, not '+' plus]
> 
> Is this merely another shorthand for a binary mode, or is there more going =
> on with 't'?

  't' is the opposite of 'b'.  It's short for "text".  It is also the default, so the above could be rewritten as open(somefile, 'a') or open(otherfile, 'r') with no change in meaning.

  Jp