Will file be closed automatically in a "for ... in open..." statement?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 18/02/2016 01:29, jfong at ms4.hinet.net wrote:
> The "for ... open ..." is definitely not a good design pattern. It opens a file at "for" block but leaves it closed somewhere in the sky.
>

Hardly, as all ready explained, but how about this

handle = open('foo.txt')
for line in handle :
     ...do something...
handle.close()

Is that better?

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