Thanks. Interestingly, this is not the first time I was suggested to pursue further reading with Raymond Chen's blog.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05792.html <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05792.html> :) On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:13 PM, William Leslie < [email protected]> wrote: > A good resource I recently read on this is this entry in Raymond Chen's > blog: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/08/09/10047586.aspx > > Together with the following entry, which explains why the lifetime of > the variable has nothing to do with the lifetime of the object, this > should help you understand. > > You should consider automatically closing a file to be an > implementation detail, even cpython may not respect such semantics in > future. That is why the with statement was created. > > -- > William Leslie >
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