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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-09-13 05:38:56 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-09-13 05:38:56 (GMT)
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SF bug [#460467] file objects should be subclassable.
Preliminary support. What's here works, but needs fine-tuning.
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@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a4?
Core
+- The builtin file type can be subclassed now. In the usual pattern,
+ "file" is the name of the builtin type, and file() is a new builtin
+ constructor, with the same signature as the builtin open() function.
+ file() is now the preferred way to open a file.
+
- In 2.2a3, hash() applied to an instance of a subclass of str or unicode
always returned 0. This has been repaired.