No need to close file?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-07-18, T <ty.2006 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>> for line in file('foo', 'r'):
>>>   print line

>> Good programming practice says that if you open it - you close it.
>>
>> And stay out of trouble ;-)

> How do I close the file in the above case?

Aye, there's the rub.

You can't close an anonymous file, so you have to give it a name.

   f = file('foo', 'r')
   for line in f:
      print line
   f.close()

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