[Tutor] What is missing?

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, Grimmtooth <grimmtoothtoo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > DIR = "D:\\dp_test"
> > for filename in os.listdir(DIR):
> >     full_path = os.path.join(DIR, filename)
> >     myFile = open(full_path, 'r')
> >     inFile = open('dp_hr.txt', 'w')
> >     count = len(myFile.readlines())
> >     print filename + ",", count     
> >     inFile.write(filename + ', ' + string(count))
> 
> Where are you closing the files?

Closing them may look good and make your program a little more robust, but
isn't usually necessary in Python. The moment that inFile refers to a new
open file, the old file object is destroyed, and closed. That also happens
when the programs finishes.

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Remco Gerlich