MRAB, > From the help: ... > Do not depend on immediate finalization of objects when they become > unreachable (so you should always close files explicitly).
Do you notice there is not a single word about (the delayed action of) the __del__ method in there ? Why than do you think its talking about it ? You know how I read that ? As if its talking about /variables going outof scope/. Makes sense ? Thought so. :-) Hmmm... Maybe the __del__ method was created exactly to solve this late handling of going-outof-scope variables. What do you think ? And by the way: /when/ would you close those files explicitily ? You cannot just do it before any "del instance" command, as some other refence to the instance might still there ... Regards, Rudy Wieser -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
