Safer work-around for Python 3 removing the built-in file() function

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 43f3b2b5..24c540b7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ __pycache__
 build
 dist
 cmd2.egg-info
+.idea
+.cache
 
diff --git a/cmd2.py b/cmd2.py
index 8b94c3e2..237d1bfd 100755
--- a/cmd2.py
+++ b/cmd2.py
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ except NameError:
 # Python 3 compatability hack due to no built-in file keyword in Python 3
 # Due to two occurences of isinstance(<foo>, file) checking to see if something is of file type
 try:
+    file
+except NameError:
     import io
     file = io.TextIOWrapper
-except ImportError:
-    pass # Python2
 
 if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
     pyparsing.ParserElement.enablePackrat()