On 02Sep2015 08:01, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
One circumstance where you might use fdopen and _not_ want .close to close the
underlying service is when you're handed a file descriptor over which you're
supposed to perform some I/O, and the I/O library functions use high level
files. In that case you might want code like this:
fd2 = os.dup(fd)
fp = open(fd2, 'a+b') # or whatever mode
... do stuff, perhaps passing fp to a library function ...
fp.close()
fd2 is not closed, but fd is still open for further use.
Um, "fd2 _is_ closed". Whoops.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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