nntplib, huge xover object

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Mon Apr 7 10:53:15 EDT 2003


mwilson at the-wire.com (Mel Wilson) writes:

> In article <x7smsvh7kr.fsf at guru.mired.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> >The garbage collection happening when your function returns is
> >implementation specific. It works that way in CPython, but not
> >Jython. You should always explicitly close files to make sure they get
> >closed - and the output flushed, in this case - when you're done with
> >them.
>    That's why I prefer to think of Jython as a different
> language.  The idea of a service that can clean up and quit
> when the last client stops using it is just too appealing.

I don't think you have any guarantees that CPython won't change
behavior on you. 

        <mike
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