open(False) in python3

[Giampaolo Rodolà]

2010/5/12 Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>:
> open() in Python 3 does a lot of things; it's like a mix of codecs.open() +
> builtin open() + os.fdopen() from 2.x all merged together. It does different
> things depending on the type and quantity of its arguments, and even returns
> objects of different types.
>
> In particular, open(some_integer) assumes some_integer is a file descriptor
> and return some variant of file object using the given file descriptor.

Interesting. I wasn't aware of this.
Is it documented somewhere?


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