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Re: Weird Problem

Carl Banks:
> BTW, you don't know this, but since you're using 2.3, you should
> probably start using "file" instead of open:

Something I rather don't like given how much old code I have
which uses 'file' as a variable. Ditto for quite a few pieces of the
standard library.

Andrew
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