On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, dave selby wrote:
> The whole topic came up because I just finished reading 'learning
> python' 3rd edition OReilly as a refresher where there are multiple
> instances of suggesting that you do the exact opposite eg ...
>
> [line.rstrip() for line in open('myfile')] ... p361
> for line in open('script1.py') ... p261& p276 where it is described as
> 'best practice' for reading files line by line
> etc ...
But that's for use of an input file. The question was about writing. I
wouldn't worry too much about closing file that was used as input, as I am
about one for output, where you want to be careful that the file contents
are left in a particular desired state.
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