On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:07 AM, dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 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)
>
> ie no close() to flush the data, but also not assigned an object name
> so am I right in thinking that as the object is 'reclaimed' close() is
> automatically called ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
> If you're using Python 2.5, you can use the new "with" -
> with open("x.txt") as f:
> data = f.read()
> do something with data
>
> which takes care of closing and possible exception handling automagically.
Fredrik Lundh has a good article about it:
http://effbot.org/zone/python-with-statement.htm
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