[Tutor] Re: FTP Question

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:50:08PM -0700, Sheila King wrote:
| On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:41:29 -0700 (PDT), Chad Crabtree wrote:
| > #after connecting and logging in ftp.storbinary('STOR
| > file',open('file','rb))
| >
| >
| > and this method was successful which supprised me however I'm
| > wondering if this file is now just floating around in memory,
| > because I couldn't figure out how to close it.  Hmmmm
|=20
| The file closes itself.
|=20
| Since you did not assign any "identifier" or variable name to=20
| reference the object, it will close as soon as you are done working=20
| with it.

This assumes that no dangling references exist.  It also assumes there
are no bugs in the interpreter that could crash it before that
happens.  I think it is better practice to assign it to a handle and
explicitly close() it when you are done.

-D

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One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
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