New submission from Philip Jenvey <pjenvey@underboss.org>: I'm being pessimistic here and ensuring setuptools closes all files immediately when done with them, in particular for Python VMs that don't use reference counting GC. Those VMs may not GC/close those files until later, and open file handles are particularly bad on Windows (you can't delete a file that's in use). This is of low priority ---------- files: close_fp-r60849.diff messages: 12 nosy: pjenvey priority: wish status: unread title: [PATCH] Immediately close all file handles Added file: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/file4/close_fp-r60849.diff _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue10> _______________________________________________