On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <4bc9aad...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Lie Ryan wrote: > >> Since in python nothing is guaranteed about implicit file close ... > > It is guaranteed that objects with a reference count of zero will be > disposed.
> In my experiments, this happens immediately. Experiment with an implementation other than CPython and prepare to be surprised. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list