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  Re: Looking for ideas to improve library API Chris Lalancette <clalancette@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 08:33 -0500

#99573 — Re: Looking for ideas to improve library API

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:36 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Why pass a file descriptor? Why not a filename?

The reason for a file descriptor is so that I can also add other
file-like objects, such as StringIO.  My unit tests, for instance,
rely heavily on this.  That being said, it is not *strictly* required
(my unit tests could be modified to write to temporary files), but I
thought it was a nice feature.

Chris

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