[issue3860] GzipFile and BZ2File should support context manager protocol

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Sat Dec 27 01:46:10 CET 2008


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> (1) the IOError message is different for the two modules:
>    "I/O operation on closed GzipFile object"
> vs
>    "I/O operation on closed file"

I've reused the same error message as used in other parts of each
module.

> (2) For bz2module, Why don't you call BZ2File_close() directly instead 
> of the generic version PyObject_CallMethod(... "close" ...)?

Because someone may subclass BZ2File and override the close() method. I
don't know if it's likely to happen, though.

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