> > footnote: it's definitely an accepted pydiom:
>
> Yes, but one I personally do not like
>
> > aifc.py:
> > if type(f) == type(''):
> > f = __builtin__.open(f, 'rb')
> > etc.
> >
> > it's a reasonable way to make your code a bit more reusable
> > (it's rude to expect every chunk of potentially usable data to
> > have a filename...).
>
> Of course -- that's why I think most code should use file-like objects.
Agreed. The quoted examples are all kludges in my book. (The API
designer initially accepted only a filename, then realized this was a
bad choice, and fixed it in a backwards compatible way instead of
fixing it right. There are just as many examples where it's done
right, I just can't think of any. :-)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)
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