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[Paul Watson]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:
> 
>>Closing off this particular one would make it harder to get benefit of
>>non-C implementations of Python, so it has been judged "not worth it".
>>I think I agree with that judgement.
> 
> 
> The right fix is PEP 343.

I am sure you are right.  However, PEP 343 will not change the existing 
body of Python source code.  Nor will it, alone, change the existing 
body of Python programmers who are writing code which does not close files.