In message <mailman.3438.1239062418.11746.python-l...@python.org>, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <mailman.3332.1238914117.11746.python-l...@python.org>, >> Terry Reedy wrote: >> >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> All Python objects are reference-counted. >>> >>> Nope. Only in CPython, and even that could change. >> >> Why should it? > > Because Guido has said it might some time in the future. It's still a matter of efficiency, not correctness. >>>> Once the file object becomes >>>> inaccessible, it is automatically closed. Simple. >>> >>> Even in CPython, that would not be true now is the object became >>> involved in or became a dependent of a reference cycle. >> >> And how exactly would that happen with a file object? > > Create a cycle of objects, and have one of them reference a file object. Which was not what was happening in the actual situation at hand. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
