[Python-ideas] `to_file()` method for strings

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> It's only relevant for other implementations -- cPython already cleans up
> the file object (any object) when it is no longer referenced.
>
> And I do move the thought experiment along -- it was never specific to file
> objects, but rather:
>
> In the case of temporary objects that are never referred to outside a single
> line of code -- delete it right away.

The problem is that there's no way to be sure. For instance, compare
these lines of code:

from threading import Thread

open("marker").write("Ha")
Thread(target=threadfunc).start()

One of them has finished with the object completely. The other most
certainly has not.

Python prefers, in the case of ambiguity, to require explicit directives.

ChrisA