GC and resource finalization

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Ian Kjos" <ikjos at email.uophx.edu> writes:

> In the slightly more general case, when (if ever) can the
> interpretter prove that it is safe to close that file? Will the file
> be closed?

In your example, the file will be closed when the cyclic garbage
collection is invoked. This happens at an unspecified time, but can be
triggered with gc.collect().

HTH,
Martin