On 04/17/10 21:23, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.
In short, in case of doubt, just be explicit.
Since in python nothing is guaranteed about implicit file close, you
must always explicitly close it.
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