Anna Ravenscroft identified many occurrences of "file" used to open a file
in the stdlib and changed each of them to use "open" instead. At this
time there are no other known occurrences that can be safely changed (in
Lib and all subdirectories thereof).
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index 0ea4bb7..96923bd 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@
# load the installed pyconfig.h:
try:
filename = get_config_h_filename()
- parse_config_h(file(filename), g)
+ parse_config_h(open(filename), g)
except IOError, msg:
my_msg = "invalid Python installation: unable to open %s" % filename
if hasattr(msg, "strerror"):