James Y Knight <foom <at> fuhm.net> writes: > > It seems that a separate method "_internal_close" should've been > defined to do the actual closing of the file, and the close() method > should've been defined on the base class as "self.flush(); > self._internal_close()" and never overridden.
I'm completely open to changes as long as there is a reasonable consensus around them. Your proposal looks sane, although the fact that a semi-private method (starting with an underscore) is designed to be overriden in some classes is a bit annoying. I'd also like to have some advice from Guido, since he was one of the driving forces behind the specification and the original Python implementation. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
