Creating a new file object; open() vs file()

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ben Finney wrote:


>> I see what you mean, but I think that's why I like using open,
>> because I like having my functions be verbs instead of nouns.
> 
> Note though that you're calling a class (in this case, type)
> constructor, to return a new object.

no, he's calling a factory function to get an object that provides the 
expected behaviour.

in future versions of Python, open() may not always create an instance 
of the file type.

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