"Karim Liateni" <karim.liat...@free.fr> wrote
def getLines(file):
try: lines = open(filename).readlines() ; return lines
except IOError: #handle error
but in the second 'lines = open(filename).readlines()'
I don't hold indirectly a reference to the file? Please, could you
explain more this point?
Sure, the lines variable holds a reference to the list returned by
readlines.
There is no variable referring to the file object so immediately after
readlines completes the file will be ready to be closed (at least in
CPython as already pointed out by Lie)
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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