David W. Lambert <lamber...@corning.com> added the comment: #OOPS! I forgot the subtlety. #I must also retain the stream #else it gets collected. #Nasty.
import io class file(io.TextIOWrapper): '''condensing code for this list without test is a no no!''' def __init__(self,name): self.stream = open(name) # SAVE THE STREAM! super().__init__(self.stream.buffer) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5513> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com