Closing a file

[Duncan Smith]

I am using PythonWin.  I do try to close the file with outputfile.close()
after the second 'if'.  I don't understand why it apparently doesn't work.
ie. I want to open a file and write to it on the first iteration (which it
does), write to it on subsequent iterations (which it does), and close it
after a certain number of iterations (which it doesn't).  Thanks for your
help, but I'm afraid I'm still stuck.