OpenWrapper is really a weird beast. I don't know other functions which are defined this way. Can't we decorate def open with @staticmethod instead?

The io module doesn't use this hack: OpenWrapper is just an alias to open.

$ python3
Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 20 2021, 00:00:00) 
>>> import io
>>> io.OpenWrapper
<built-in function open>
>>> io.OpenWrapper is io.open
True

OpenWrapper is really a weird beast. I don't know other functions which are defined this way. Can't we decorate def open with @staticmethod instead?

Nice idea.

Oh, test is failing...

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ERROR: test_read (test.test_univnewlines.PyTestCRLFNewlines)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/runner/work/cpython/cpython/Lib/test/test_univnewlines.py", line 51, in setUp
    with self.open(os_helper.TESTFN, self.WRITEMODE) as fp:
TypeError: 'staticmethod' object is not callable

I opened a discussion on python-dev about OpenWrapper and staticmethod: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/QZ7SFW3IW3S2C5RMRJZOOUFSHHUINNME/

I opened a discussion on python-dev about OpenWrapper and staticmethod: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/QZ7SFW3IW3S2C5RMRJZOOUFSHHUINNME/

And I created https://bugs.python.org/issue43680 to remove undocumented io.OpenWrapper and _pyio.OpenWrapper.

Maybe define open as a classmethod in a dummy class and set the bound method as global open. Or continue to define open as a function, and set OpenWrapper as a functools.partial instance, since it's builtin and doesn't insert a stack frame.