From 59678631551ed6ba56023c6f13da1d033f34b735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:50:43 +0000
Subject: Issue 2215:  add a file() builtin to the compatability layer (for
 pre-2.2 Python versions).

---
 src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py b/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py
index a4c3080..abac857 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py
@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ except NameError:
     # Assign to True in this module namespace so it shows up in pydoc output.
     True = True
 
+try:
+    file
+except NameError:
+    # Pre-2.2 Python has no file() function.
+    __builtin__.file = open
+
 #
 try:
     zip
-- 
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