From b997159114414f945c6581be1f348994534a5a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stevenknight <stevenknight@fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:50:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Issue 2215:  add a file() builtin to the compatability layer
 (for pre-2.2 Python versions).

git-svn-id: http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/trunk@3457 fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1
---
 src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py b/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py
index a4c3080c..abac8576 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/compat/builtins.py
@@ -135,6 +135,12 @@ except NameError:
     # Assign to True in this module namespace so it shows up in pydoc output.
     True = True
 
+try:
+    file
+except NameError:
+    # Pre-2.2 Python has no file() function.
+    __builtin__.file = open
+
 #
 try:
     zip
-- 
2.26.2