Martin Panter added the comment: You “forgot” to call close():

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parser.close() Encountered some data : eggs

Perhaps this is a documentation bug, since there is a lot of example code given, but none of the examples call close(). ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, vadmium _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23144> _______________________________________