Python – When to use file vs open

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You should always use open().

As the documentation states:

When opening a file, it’s preferable
to use open() instead of invoking this
constructor directly. file is more
suited to type testing (for example,
writing “isinstance(f, file)”).

Also, file() has been removed since Python 3.0.

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