[Tutor] For loop question

[STREET Gideon (SPARQ)]

Thanks all, appears it is the newline character which was causing me
grief.  For some reason I still have to do a readlines on the open file
at this stage, but I can muck about with that to figure it out.

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of Kent Johnson
Sent: Thursday, 11 May 2006 1:03 AM
Cc: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] For loop question

w chun wrote:
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>> For short Python scripts I usually allow the runtime to close the
file.
>> For longer programs and anything written in Jython (which has
>> different garbage collection behaviour) I usually use an explicit
close().
>
> i'm still not comfortable without doing my own explicit close(), esp.
> for writing to files... maybe i'm just used to malloc/new-free pairs
> like i am with open-close, although on the other hand, getting rid of
> another line of code is tempting -- so i will actually do this with a
> short piece of code that is read-only.

Yes, for writing files I always use an explicit close(), thanks for the
correction!

Kent

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