file
Python 3 には typeがありません。Python 2 では組み込みでしたが、Python 3ではなくなりました。以下を比較してください。
Python 2.7.1 [...]
>>> f = open('zz.bak', 'w')
>>> type(f)
<type 'file'>
>>> print f.__doc__
file(name[, mode[, buffering]]) -> file object
Open a file. The mode can be 'r', 'w' or 'a' for reading (default),
writing or appending. The file will be created if it doesn't exist
when opened for writing or appending; it will be truncated when
opened for writing. Add a 'b' to the mode for binary files.
Add a '+' to the mode to allow simultaneous reading and writing.
If the buffering argument is given, 0 means unbuffered, 1 means line
buffered, and larger numbers specify the buffer size. The preferred way
to open a file is with the builtin open() function.
Add a 'U' to mode to open the file for input with universal newline
support. Any line ending in the input file will be seen as a '\n'
in Python. Also, a file so opened gains the attribute 'newlines';
the value for this attribute is one of None (no newline read yet),
'\r', '\n', '\r\n' or a tuple containing all the newline types seen.
'U' cannot be combined with 'w' or '+' mode.
Python 3 では...
Python 3.2.1 [...]
>>> f = open('xx', 'w')
>>> type(f)
<class '_io.TextIOWrapper'>
>>> print(f.__doc__)
Character and line based layer over a BufferedIOBase object, buffer.
encoding gives the name of the encoding that the stream will be
decoded or encoded with. It defaults to locale.getpreferredencoding.
errors determines the strictness of encoding and decoding (see the
codecs.register) and defaults to "strict".
newline can be None, '', '\n', '\r', or '\r\n'. It controls the
handling of line endings. If it is None, universal newlines is
enabled. With this enabled, on input, the lines endings '\n', '\r',
or '\r\n' are translated to '\n' before being returned to the
caller. Conversely, on output, '\n' is translated to the system
default line seperator, os.linesep. If newline is any other of its
legal values, that newline becomes the newline when the file is read
and it is returned untranslated. On output, '\n' is converted to the
newline.
If line_buffering is True, a call to flush is implied when a call to
write contains a newline character.