paul j3 added the comment: Related issues are:
http://bugs.python.org/issue13824 - argparse.FileType opens a file and never closes it http://bugs.python.org/issue14156 - argparse.FileType for '-' doesn't work for a mode of 'rb' As discussed earlier FileType was meant as a convenience for small scripting applications, ones that don't try to close the file before exiting. But now we are encouraged to open files in a context that guarantees closure. In 13824 I proposed a 'FileContext', and included a dummy context like this handle stdin/out. But I think the closefd=False approach raised in 14156 and David is probably the better way to go. I think the main thing that is lacking is a testing mechanism. ---------- nosy: +paul.j3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22884> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
