On 2010-10-13, Jonas H. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not really. Files will be closed when the garbage collector collects the
> file object, but you can't be sure the GC will run within the next N
> seconds/instructions or something like that. So you should *always* make
> sure to close files after using them. That's what context managers were
> introduced for.
> with open('foobar') as fileobject:
> do_something_with(fileobject)
That makes sense. I don't think it'd quite work in this case, because I
want to open several files all at once, do a ton of work that populates
them with files, and then close them all.
This is a nice idiom, though. In C, I've been sort of missing that idiom,
which I first encountered in Ruby. (I mean, spelled differently, but the
same basic thing.)
-s
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