In article <mailman.1514.1368145123.3114.python-l...@python.org>,
Michael Speer <knome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> By his reasoning it simply shouldn't exist. Instead you would access the
> information only like this:
>
> with open("myfile.dat") as f:
> data = f.read()
The problem with things like file objects is they model external
real-world entities, which have externally-imposed real-world behaviors.
f.close() can fail, most commonly because some buffered output couldn't
be written when being flushed as part of the close(). Sometimes it's
important to find out about that.
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