to close or not to close?

[Remco Gerlich]

Grant Griffin wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but is it considered good Python form to close a
> file whose variable is just about to go out of scope (and thus be automatically
> closed)?  Or should one just omit that?

Close it. Explicit is better than implicit, and you don't rely on the
__del__ method being called - for instance, in JPython the file wouldn't be
closed (afaik).

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