Why no open(f, "w").write()?

[Steve Holden]

"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote ...
> In article <7iadqi9wt2.fsf at enark.csis.hku.hk>, Isaac To wrote:
> >>>>>> "Grant" == Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
> >
> >     >> The question is: When does the file get closed?
> >
> >    Grant> Sometime before the program exits.
> >
> > Wrong.  Sometime when the garbage collector is executed, or never if the
> > garbage collector never choose to collect that.
>
> I know of no OS that doesn't close the file when the process
> terminates.
>

So we're supposed to rely on your ignorance in making implementation
decisions now?

regards
 Steve
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