From 30364204d3caf04b13264a750b34555072b32e33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:49:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more about the file type's death #5513 --- Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst index 82f32cac5d..943457312f 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` -- 2.40.0