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/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index 7a1a3b4..b9fdd5d 100644
--- a/Lib/webbrowser.py
+++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
cmdline = [self.name] + raise_opt + args
if remote or self.background:
- inout = file(os.devnull, "r+")
+ inout = open(os.devnull, "r+")
else:
# for TTY browsers, we need stdin/out
inout = None
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
else:
action = "openURL"
- devnull = file(os.devnull, "r+")
+ devnull = open(os.devnull, "r+")
# if possible, put browser in separate process group, so
# keyboard interrupts don't affect browser as well as Python
setsid = getattr(os, 'setsid', None)