Rainer Hubovsky wrote: > Thank you Reinhold, that was the solution. But just because I am curious: > what is this statement without the parentheses? After all it is a valid > statement... > > Rainer > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> Is the above exactly your code? If yes, it should be >> >> f.close() >> >> The parentheses are necessary to make the statement a function call.
In addition to what Fredrik said, this can be useful for shortcutting a name, such as c = f.close c() Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
