[Tutor] Trying to extract the last line of a text file

[Chris Hengge]

Not to hijack the thread, but what stops you from just putting a file.close()
after your example line?

On 10/19/06, Chad Crabtree <flaxeater at gmail.com> wrote:

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> file('filename.txt').readlines()[-1]
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> Some will say that this is no good because the file is still open.
> However I've been told that when the object is cleaned the file is closed so
> it should be fine.
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