Sorta noob question - file vs. open?
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Wed Aug 24 17:39:11 EDT 2005
Peter A. Schott wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied. If open is still preferred, I will
> stick with that.
FWIW, that's not an unqualified "preferred". To demonstrate by example,
neither of the above is considered preferred, though they both work:
outputFile = file('path.to.file')
if isinstance(outputFile, open): ...
whereas these _are_ preferred:
outputFile = open('path.to.file')
if isinstance(outputFile, file): ...
-Peter
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