What's the difference between io.open() and os.open() on Python?

Question

I realised that the open() function I\'ve been using was an alias to io.open() and that importing * from os would oversha

Answer 1

os.open() method opens the file file and set various flags according to flags and possibly its mode according to mode.

The default mode is 0777 (octal), and the current unmask value is first masked out.

This method returns the file descriptor for the newly opened file.

While,

io.open() method opens a file, in the mode specified in the string mode. It returns a new file handle, or, in case of errors, nil plus an error message.

Hope this helps