Need Help Parsing From File

[John Machin]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>
> ftxt=open(filename,"rt")

Never seen that done before. It's not in the docs.

FWIW:

Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)] on win
32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> f = open('foo.txt', 'rt')
>>> f = open('foo.txt', 'rs')
>>> f = open('foo.txt', 'ratsdroppings')
# Nary an exception raised, not the slightest murmur

Is this a bug or a feature? Or is it one of those good old "unspecified
behaviour" cases? MSVC rtl only?

Cheers,
John