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/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
index 3fb01e7..53054ad 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -2338,7 +2338,7 @@
self.ateof = 1
return s
- f = file(name=TESTFN, mode='w')
+ f = open(name=TESTFN, mode='w')
lines = ['a\n', 'b\n', 'c\n']
try:
f.writelines(lines)
@@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@
sandbox = rexec.RExec()
code1 = """f = open(%r, 'w')""" % TESTFN
- code2 = """f = file(%r, 'w')""" % TESTFN
+ code2 = """f = open(%r, 'w')""" % TESTFN
code3 = """\
f = open(%r)
t = type(f) # a sneaky way to get the file() constructor