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

[Grant Edwards]

In article <k3rJ8.88672$vm6.19407854 at ruti.visi.com>, Grant Edwards 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.

I suppose that doesn't guarantee that data buffered by the
Python implimentation gets flushed...

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