From 003047a5f2e1566f70dc2f001c0f43e8059c02e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:54:04 +0000 Subject: Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects. --- Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex index 765ba94..f1684d3 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @@ -1187,9 +1187,12 @@ It is written as \code{Ellipsis}. \label{bltin-file-objects}} File objects are implemented using C's \code{stdio} package and can be -created with the built-in function -\function{open()}\bifuncindex{open} described in section -\ref{built-in-funcs}, ``Built-in Functions.'' They are also returned +created with the built-in constructor +\function{file()}\bifuncindex{file} described in section +\ref{built-in-funcs}, ``Built-in Functions.''\footnote{\function{file()} +is new in Python 2.2. The older built-in \function{open()} is an +alias for \function{file()}.} +They are also returned by some other built-in functions and methods, such as \function{os.popen()} and \function{os.fdopen()} and the \method{makefile()} method of socket objects. -- cgit v0.12