DFS wrote:
Maybe it worked because the last time the file was written to was in a for loop, so I got lucky and the files weren't truncated? Don't know.
It "works" because CPython disposes of objects as soon as they are not referenced anywhere. Other implementations of Python (e.g. Jython, PyPy) might not do that. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
