[Tutor] Closing handles (was valueOf() equivalent)

Darrell Brogdon darrell@brogdon.net
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:38:57 -0500


D-Man wrote:

> In any case it's still good practice to explicitly close all file handles and
> network connections before exiting.

Ok so, uh, how do I close a connection that has been opened with 
'os.popen()'?

I was reasonably confident that Python would close the connection for me 
but I always try to close anything I open in my code just to be sure.

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