readlines() question

[Moshe Zadka]

On 10 Jun 2000, L Stewart wrote:

> Again just out of curiosity, what does JPython do? 
[About file objects which become unreachable]

It calls them at GC time. Which can be any time between now and the end of
the program (perhaps not at all).

> (CPython is the
> standard python distribution or another one?)

Yes. CPython is the name when trying to distinguish it from the abstract
concept of the Python language.

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