On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Andrew Dalke <[email protected]> wrote: > As a style note, > > On Jan 26, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Greg Landrum wrote: >> To answer your question, the following bit of code works: >> >> f = gzip.open('output.sdf.gz','w+') >> w = Chem.SDWriter(f) >> for m in ms: w.write(m) >> w.flush() >> f.flush() >> w=None >> f=None > > If you are running with Python 2.7 then a context-mangager solution might be > cleaner: > > with gzip.open('output.sdf.gz','w+') as f: > w = Chem.SDWriter(f) > for m in ms: w.write(m) > w.flush() > w = None >
I haven't followed the evolution of context managers in Python; what's the advantage? > > Consider that a request. :) Duly noted. I will have to check if they are supported by boost.python. -greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
