`file` constructor in `doc/source/devel/register_me.py`

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Noticed this code, where file is neither a Python 3 built-in, nor imported:

nibabel/doc/source/devel/register_me.py

Line 41 in 1ee4983

dsource.write(file(ini_fname, 'wt'))

This looks like a Python 2 left-over:
https://python.readthedocs.io/en/v2.7.2/library/functions.html#file
https://portingguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/builtins.html#removed-file

Has doc/source/devel/register_me.py ever been run recently? Is it still useful?

[effigies]

This seems to be something dpkg related. Possibly @yarikoptic or @mih would know what the use case is, but clearly nobody has run this in years. I'm okay to delete it.

[mih]

My initial association was Debian's dpkg, but this is unrelated. I cannot provide any insight. Sorry.

[effigies]

I'd guess it has something to do with https://nipy.org/nipy/users/install_data.html, then. Which I don't think anybody still uses.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

If so, the following files might be deleted:

• doc/source/installing_data.rst
• doc/source/devel/data_pkg_design.rst
• doc/source/devel/register_me.py

[yarikoptic]

FWIW

❯ git show --stat ec163399251a7c449a4a54fc660c8504abc0a705
commit ec163399251a7c449a4a54fc660c8504abc0a705
Author: Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 6 17:44:08 2010 -0500

    DOC - fleshed out use cases with example code

 doc/source/devel/data_pkg_uses.rst | 254 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 doc/source/devel/register_me.py    |  49 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 303 insertions(+)

so only @matthew-brett would know for sure. And given that win32 was involved, likely that dpkg has nothing to do with Debian, but rather some ad-hoc "data package" ;)

altogether, if not used ,indeed could be let RiP

[matthew-brett]

Yes, this was me sketching what we would need to make data packages work - but Pooch has more or less solved this problem now. No problem to delete.