In message <d48b70da-5384-4dc6-9527-46c6b735c...@r1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, gelonida wrote:
> I've been told, that following code snippet is not good. > > open("myfile","w").write(astring) ... I do that for reads, but never for writes. For writes, you want to give a chance for write errors to raise an exception and alert the user, instead of failing silently, to avoid inadvertent data loss. Hence the explicit close. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list