Q on explicitly calling file.close

[Jan Kaliszewski]

05-09-2009 r <rt8396 at gmail.com> wrote:

> i find the with statement (while quite useful in general
> practice) is not a "cure all" for situations that need and exception
> caught.

In what sense?

I think that:

    with open(...) as f:
       foo...

is equivalent to:

    f = open(...)
    try:
        foo...
    finally:
        f.close()

Obviously it doesn't substitute catching with 'except', but I don't
see how it could disturb that.

Cheers,
*j

-- 
Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <zuo at chopin.edu.pl>