Name
file, open
Synopsis
file(path
,mode
='r',bufsize
=-1) open(filename
,mode
='r',bufsize
=-1)
Opens or creates a file and returns a new file object. In Python 2.2
and later, open
is a synonym for the built-in type
file
. In Python 2.1 and earlier,
open
was a built-in function and
file
was not a built-in name at all. See Section 10.3.
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