Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:23:19 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:

Python also ships with a ton of modules and has many more available via
pip.  But it has moved in the direction of fewer builtins and needing
modules to do pretty much anything.  I think Python 2 had an "open"
builtin but in Python 3 you have to "import io" and use "io.open."

No, Python 2 had both “open” and “file” builtins which did the same thing,
but Python 3 keeps “open”. Yes, there is an important “io” module if you
want to get into the lower guts of file objects.

According to the “What’s New In Python 3.0” notes
<https://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html>, only about half a dozen
builtins were removed.