On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 16:46:44 +0100 Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> > On 31 Aug 2019, at 15:41, Manfred Lotz <ml_n...@posteo.de> wrote: > > > > When you say COULD this sounds like it is a matter of luck. My > > thinking was that USUALLY the file will be closed after the > > statement because then the file handle goes out of scope. > > It all depends on the way any python implementation does its garbage > collection. The file is closed as a side effect of deleting the file > object to reclaiming the memory of the file object. > > At the start of python 3 people where suprised when files and other > resources where not released at the same time that python 2 released > them. > Thanks for this. Very interesting. -- Manfred -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
