"dave selby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Up to now I when I need to write some data to a file I have been
purposely using close()
f = open(conf, 'w')
f.writelines(lines)
f.close()
Is it as safe to use the following ....
open(conf, 'w').writelines(lines)
In theory yes, but in practice its much harder to deal with
if things go wrong. You have no opportunity to catch errors and
if you do its hard to know whether it was because the file didn't
open properly or didn't write properly or whatever. Any time you
are dealing with a lump of metal spinning at high speed, tiny
distances from a magnet with the potential to hose your data
its good to be careful...
Most long term programmers have been bitten often enough
that they use f.close() just to be safe.. :-)
Alan G.
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