Opening files without closing them

[Marcin Mielżyński]

Marcin Mielżyński wrote:
> Sandra-24 wrote:
>> I was reading over some python code recently, and I saw something like
>> this:
>>
>> contents = open(file).read()
>>
>> And of course you can also do:
>>
>> open(file, "w").write(obj)
>>
>> Why do they no close the files? Is this sloppy programming or is the
>> file automatically closed when the reference is destroyed (after this
>> line)? I usually use:
>>
>> try:
>>   f = open(file)
>>   contents = f.read()
>> finally:
>>   f.close()
>>
> 
> this above is equivalent to:
> 
> open(file){|f|
>     contents=f.read
> }
> 
> the logic taking care of everything is encapsulated in open.
> 
> but can be done in less ruby way way :)
> 
> 
> 
> lopex

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lopex