use fileinput to read a specific line

[Fredrik Lundh]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Python guarantees[1] that files will be closed, but doesn't specify when 
> they will be closed. I understand that Jython doesn't automatically close 
> files until the program terminates, so even if you could rely on the ref 
> counter to close the files in CPython, it won't be safe to do so in 
> Jython.

 From what I can tell, Java's GC automatically closes file streams, so 
Jython will behave pretty much like CPython in most cases.  I sure 
haven't been able to make Jython run out by file handles by opening tons 
of files and discarding the file objects without closing them.  Has anyone?

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