[Python-Dev] Patch 595601

[Greg Ewing]

> I disagree that the thread has done nothing wrong: if one thread is
> closing a file that another thread is still reading, the whole
> application is buggy

It just seemed it would be a bit neater if the close succeeded and any
subsequent read failed, since that's what would happen anyway if the
close had been done a moment earlier. I guess it doesn't matter all
that much.

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