How to avoid "f.close" (no parens) bug?

[Eric Brunel]

Batista, Facundo wrote:
> Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> #- Pychecker reports:
> #- 
> #-     % pychecker foo.py
> #-     name: foo
> #-     Processing foo...
> #- 
> #-     Warnings...
> #- 
> #-     foo.py:4: Statement appears to have no effect
> 
> Why "appears"?
> 
> There is any case when f.close, or bar or something like "not a call to a
> function (there is no ')'), with no '=' at the left or at the right" has any
> effect?

You may be able to call some "real" code just by accessing an attribute by using 
properties. I'm not quite sure, and I can't check because I have only Python 2.1 
here.

> If no, could Python alert before run time?
> 
> I don't see nothing, but I'm kinda blind, :p
> 
> .	Facundo
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