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Wed Jul 7 22:46:14 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045958.html

I considered more as the action being performed.  I'm opening something, 
in this case a file.  And now I have an object which has been opened, I 
can perform operations on it, and when I'm done I close it.

Terry Reedy wrote:

>"François Pinard" <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message
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>>I perceived the introduction of `file()' as a nice cleanup in Python.
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>As a user, so did I.  I like the cosistency of using file along with int,
>tuple, list, dict, type, (and did I leave out something), and all user
>classes as constructors of instances of themselves.
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>Terry J. Reedy
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[Python-Dev] Re: file() or open()?