Misleading wikipedia article on Python 3?

Neil Cerutti horpner at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 8 14:00:59 EDT 2007


On 2007-08-08, Istvan Albert <istvan.albert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 6:49 am, Neil Cerutti <horp... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Incidentally, from the second link I find it shocking that the
>> keyword parameter "file" shadows a builtin. It seems to
>> endorse a bad practice.
>
> I believe that the "file" builtin has been removed as well so
> it won't shadow anything.

I can't find any evidence of that in the PEPs. Do you have a
reference?

I thought, in fact, that open was on more shaky ground. ;)

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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