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

[François Pinard]

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> depending on implementation is almost never a good idea.  Sure CPython
> behaves this way now, but it may not next month or next year.

I've been told that the behaviour is there to stay.  We may depend on it.

> As a matter of habit in any long running program I am always close() what
> needs to be closed and in other way attempt to help the garbage collector.

This is surely good to explicitly `close()' when one is done with a file,
but needs to keep a reference on this file for other reasons.  The nicest
is not keeping a reference to the file, whenever it can be avoided easily.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard