when will the file be closed

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Mage" <mage at mage.hu> wrote:

> The question is above: when will these file be closed?
>
> for s in file('/etc/passwd'):
>     print s
>
> file('/home/mage/test.txt','w').write('foo')

when the interpreter gets around to it.

if you want to make sure that a file is closed at a given point in
your program, you have to close it yourself.

for more on this, read the fine manual:

    http://docs.python.org/ref/objects.html

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