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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-03-23 02:49:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-03-23 02:49:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 30364204d3caf04b13264a750b34555072b32e33 (patch) | |
| tree | 855fddc99b2ba334020fac8c08692bb92d235ebf /Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst | |
| parent | 52c3bf1aa568c73631abcb34de792aec61a75931 (diff) | |
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more about the file type's death #5513
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst index 82f32ca..9434573 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst @@ -813,7 +813,8 @@ Builtins * Removed :func:`execfile`. Instead of ``execfile(fn)`` use ``exec(open(fn).read())``. -* Removed :class:`file`. Use :func:`open`. +* Removed the :class:`file` type. Use :func:`open`. There are now several + different kinds of streams that open can return in the :mod:`io` module. * Removed :func:`reduce`. Use :func:`functools.reduce` if you really need it; however, 99 percent of the time an explicit :keyword:`for` |