[Python-3000] close() on open(fd, closefd=False)
Christian Heimes
lists at cheimes.de
Fri Oct 31 22:50:39 CET 2008
Amaury has found an issue with open and closefd,
http://bugs.python.org/issue4233
The additional warnings aren't critical. But in retrospection I think
that I made a small error during the design of the closefd feature.
With a file descriptor number as first argument and closefd set to
false, the file descriptor isn't closed when the file object is
deallocated. It's also impossible to close the fd with close(). Right
now close() doesn't do anything and you can still write or read after
close(). This behavior is surprising to the user. I like to change
close() to set the internal fd attribute to -1 (meaning close) but keep
the fd open.
Maybe the warning could be dropped all along, too.
Christian
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