diff --git a/linkcheck/log/StandardLogger.py b/linkcheck/log/StandardLogger.py
index 7f57735e..9525b825 100644
--- a/linkcheck/log/StandardLogger.py
+++ b/linkcheck/log/StandardLogger.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ __init__(self, **args)
         self.errors = 0
         #self.warnings = 0
         if args.has_key('fileoutput'):
-            self.fd = open(args['filename'], "w")
+            self.fd = file(args['filename'], "w")
 	elif args.has_key('fd'):
             self.fd = args['fd']
         else:
diff --git a/linkcheck/optcomplete.py b/linkcheck/optcomplete.py
index d35d748b..0593fbb5 100644
--- a/linkcheck/optcomplete.py
+++ b/linkcheck/optcomplete.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ def autocomplete( parser,
     # Print debug output (if needed).  You can keep a shell with 'tail -f' to
     # the log file to monitor what is happening.
     if debugfn:
-        f = open(debugfn, 'a')
+        f = file(debugfn, 'a')
         print >> f, '---------------------------------------------------------'
         print >> f, 'CWORDS', cwords
         print >> f, 'CLINE', cline
diff --git a/linkcheck/sz_fcgi.py b/linkcheck/sz_fcgi.py
index 611b97d3..b952d89d 100644
--- a/linkcheck/sz_fcgi.py
+++ b/linkcheck/sz_fcgi.py
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ class SZ_FCGI:
 	        thread.start_new_thread(self.func,(self, req))
 	except:
             import traceback
-            traceback.print_exc(file = open('traceback', 'a'))
+            traceback.print_exc(file=file('traceback', 'a'))