Anonymous file closing
Sergey Krushinsky
lunarium at comail.ru
Sat Jun 12 15:58:50 EDT 2004
Donn Cave wrote:
>Well, we may be getting into a semantic tight spot here. What does
>`depend on' mean? I think a reasonable interpretation is that normal
>files may be opened and read as shown above without concern about using
>up file descriptors, holding files open and preventing them from being
>effectively deleted, etc.
>
>
I think, I can figure an example of such 'dependance'. This code:
open(filename, 'w').write('spam ' + open(filename, 'r').read())
does not save 'spam' plus the old file contents, as I expected firstly.
The result is just 'spam'. At the other hand, using file handles we can
make it work as expected.
Sergey
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