[issue13824] argparse.FileType opens a file and never closes it

[Nils Kattenbeck]

Nils Kattenbeck <nilskemail at gmail.com> added the comment:

A good alternative would be to use pathlib.Path. The only downside would be that one has to manually handle `-` but besides that it solves most problems.

Still the fact that file descriptors are kept open should be added as a warning to the docs

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nosy: +Nils Kattenbeck

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