Why no open(f, "w").write()?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <7iadqi9wt2.fsf at enark.csis.hku.hk>, Isaac To wrote:
>>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
> 
>     >> The question is: When does the file get closed?
> 
>    Grant> Sometime before the program exits.
> 
> Wrong.  Sometime when the garbage collector is executed, or never if the
> garbage collector never choose to collect that.

I know of no OS that doesn't close the file when the process
terminates.

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