June 16, 2009
3:20 a.m.
On 14Jun2009 16:42, Mark Seaborn <mrs@mythic-beasts.com> wrote: | I use a convenience function like this, so that GC takes care of the FDs: | | def make_pipe(): | read_fd, write_fd = os.pipe() | return os.fdopen(read_fd, "r"), os.fdopen(write_fd, "w") Not guarrenteed to be timely. The try/except at least closes things as control passes out of the relevant scope. I don't think all pythons do immediate ref-counted GC. But it's very neat! -- Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. - Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>