Used to 'file = open(...)', now what?

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz]

On 2003-05-07, John Hunter <jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>   for line in file('somefile.dat'):
>       print line

Does this mean that the generator closes the file automatically
when it reaches the end?

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