Chris> The environment in which I am working is client/server and it is Chris> the server that processes all python code. I have tried creating Chris> a file (which in the case of what I have explained means that I Chris> can't issue a close command) and let the process run as I have Chris> before. When the process has finished and I try deleting the file Chris> I get a permission denied error. As soon as I stop the server for Chris> the environment it frees up the resources to this file. Not quite Chris> sure how they could be implmenting the python.
Chris> I am assuming then that the Py_Finalize is not being called until Chris> maybe when the server terminates. This being the case it would Chris> not be any good as the server should be 'Up' all of the time!. Yes, Py_Finalize is called at program exit. It sounds to me like atexit is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. When the program exits, that file will be closed. Chris> Can you think of any possible workarounds for this? Other than figuring out a way to close the file at some other point during server execution, no. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list