On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Joshua Landau <jos...@landau.ws> wrote: > On 6 August 2013 11:52, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson >> <devyncjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> with open('/home/collier/pytest/sort.TXT') as file: >>> sorted(file, key=str.casefold, reverse=True) >>> >>> >>> Thanks for the advice Joshua. I find these tips very useful. However, how >>> would I close the files, or would they close after the "with" construct is >>> complete? >> >> >> That's the whole point of 'with'. It calls open(), > > To be pedantic, it does not. open is called by the time the with gets > involved. >
The entire statement does. Yes, it's not 'with' that does that, but it is called. Anyway, that's detaily stuff :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list