[Python-ideas] `to_file()` method for strings

[Émanuel Barry]

I wonder how reasonable it would be to add a new keyword to open that would .close() the file object upon a single write/read. Consider:

 

data = open("foo.txt", "r", close_after_use=True).read()

 

It doesn’t rely on garbage collection to work properly, is a fancy one-liner, and is obvious that you can only read or write from/to it once. Could use a better keyword for that, though.

 

-Emanuel

~ If it doesn’t quack like a duck, add a quack() method ~

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