[python-win32] file descriptor issues using msvcrt.open_osfhandle()+os.fdopen()

[Mark Hammond]

On 18/12/2011 4:34 AM, Scott Leerssen wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
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>> 2011/12/17 Scott Leerssen <sleerssen at gmail.com
>> <mailto:sleerssen at gmail.com>>
>>
>>     I did see that, but I interpreted that to mean that the PyHANDLE
>>     would be dereferenced from the underlying Windows file handle,
>>
>>
>> It's the other way round: the PyHandle just forgets the win32 handle
>> value, and will not close it in its __del__.
>
> Sorry, I did write that backward. How is the win32 handle freed?

The .Detach() method returns an integer handle value which can then be 
closed using win32api.CloseHandle().

Mark