Closing files

[Nick Coghlan]

Daniel Dittmar wrote:
> - that suggest a different solution; like declarations on local 
> variables that say "call destructor when object goes out of scope"

You may be interested in PEP 310 (reliable acquisition/release pairs): 
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0310.html

(Although if that idea gets adopted, it is unlikely to use the 'with' keyword - 
see PEP 3000 for the reason why)

Regards,
Nick.