does python have useless destructors?

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:48:06 +0200, Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de>
wrote:
> 
> That is not true: the data is not lost. The file is closed eventually
> (e.g. when Python exits), in which case the data is flushed to disk.

On Unix it is. I am unsure about recent versions of windows, but back
when I was coding pascal on Win95, I found out the hard way that if the
process exits without closing the descriptor, whatever is in the buffer
is lost. Welcome to windows. 

Mike

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