On 14Jun2009 16:42, Mark Seaborn <m...@mythic-beasts.com> wrote: | I use a convenience function like this, so that GC takes care of the FDs: | | def make_pipe(): | read_fd, write_fd = os.pipe() | return os.fdopen(read_fd, "r"), os.fdopen(write_fd, "w")
Not guarrenteed to be timely. The try/except at least closes things as control passes out of the relevant scope. I don't think all pythons do immediate ref-counted GC. But it's very neat! -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. - Mark Ovens <ma...@uk.radan.com> _______________________________________________ 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
