shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Rob Schneider <rmschne at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The close method is defined and flushing and closing a file, so
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>> it should not return until that's done.
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>> What command are you using to create the temp file?
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>
> re command to write the file:
> f=open(fn,'w')
> ... then create HTML text in a string
> f.write(html)
> f.close

Hold it one moment... You're not actually calling close. The file's
still open. Is that a copy/paste problem, or is that your actual code?

In Python, a function call ALWAYS has parentheses after it. Evaluating
a function's name like that returns the function (or method) object,
which you then do nothing with. (You could assign it someplace, for
instance, and call it later.) Try adding empty parens:

f.close()

and see if that solves the problem. Alternatively, look into the
'with' statement and the block syntax that it can give to I/O
operations.

ChrisA