File to dict

[Duncan Booth]

Neil Cerutti <horpner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2007-12-07, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> from __future__ import with_statement
>>
>> def loaddomainowners(domain):
>>     with open('/etc/virtual/domainowners','r') as infile:
> 
> I've been thinking I have to use contextlib.closing for
> auto-closing files. Is that not so?
> 
That is not so.

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
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>>> from __future__ import with_statement
>>> with open('diffs.txt') as f:
...    print len(list(f))
...
40
>>> f
<closed file 'diffs.txt', mode 'r' at 0x00AA0698>
>>>