Should I close after popen??

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 15-Mar-2001 Andrew Markebo wrote:
> I am hacking away a small background program, using popen to call
> commands, should I close the file in some way when done or it is taken
> care of automagically??
> 
> I do something like this once every 10 mins..
> 
>         fd1=os.popen("command")
>         fd2=os.popen("command")
>         os.wait(fd1)
>         os.wait(fd2)
>         values=fd1.read()+fd2.read()
> 
> And.. anything to worry about, nesting popen/wait like this??
> (Linux/Solaris)
> 

if that is in a loop, it should be fine:

  while 1:
     f = open(file) # every time the loop repeats, f gets closed and opened
                    # again
     # do things to f