Doc: Add a link to tutorial page from open() doc (GH-21737)

miss-islington · bbkane · web-flow · commit de5de413e7f0 · 2020-08-07T20:05:04.000-07:00
Adds a link to the "Reading and Writing Files" page so users can more easily discover how file handles are handled with the `with` context manager vs without it. (cherry picked from commit 705f145) Co-authored-by: Benjamin Kane <bbkane@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1035,7 +1035,8 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 .. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True, opener=None)
 
    Open *file* and return a corresponding :term:`file object`.  If the file
-   cannot be opened, an :exc:`OSError` is raised.
+   cannot be opened, an :exc:`OSError` is raised. See
+   :ref:`tut-files` for more examples of how to use this function.
 
    *file* is a :term:`path-like object` giving the pathname (absolute or
    relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or an
