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_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 9497777..bf0e196 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
os.makedirs(sub11_path)
os.makedirs(sub2_path)
for path in tmp1_path, tmp2_path, tmp3_path:
- f = file(path, "w")
+ f = open(path, "w")
f.write("I'm " + path + " and proud of it. Blame test_os.\n")
f.close()
@@ -361,10 +361,10 @@
class DevNullTests (unittest.TestCase):
def test_devnull(self):
- f = file(os.devnull, 'w')
+ f = open(os.devnull, 'w')
f.write('hello')
f.close()
- f = file(os.devnull, 'r')
+ f = open(os.devnull, 'r')
self.assertEqual(f.read(), '')
f.close()