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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-03-23 02:49:51 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-03-23 02:49:51 (GMT)
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@@ -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`