Converting a Shell Script to run under Python

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 07-Dec-99 D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
 >  Magnus L. Hetland <mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
 >  
 > > open("file3","w").write(open("file1").read())
 >  
 > > though that is probably not a good idea. I guess I would rather do
 >  
 >  Why don't you find this a good idea?  It's pretty much a Python paradigm
 >  as far as I'm concerned.  

I've always thought that I should close my files when I'm done. I can't 
see how that should/could be done using this paradigm. What if I want to
reaccess any of the files? Doesn't that cause problems? Or will the files 
be automagically closed since I haven't bound them to any variable?

/Mikael

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