close() the file when opening "with"?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 06:27:02 EDT 2020


On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 8:16 PM Bischoop <Bischoop at vimuster.net> wrote:
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> So far I learnt "with" closes the file opened therefore "Generally" no
> need to close() file. I'm worry about this "Generally", then close() or
> not?

Where did you learn that? Can you cite a reference?

If you use a with block, the file is guaranteed to be closed as you
exit that block. It's that simple.

ChrisA


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