[Tutor] file opened by open() are closed automaticaly

[Ben Finney]

ZEMMOURA Khalil Zakaria <zemmoura.khalil at gmail.com> writes:

> The file opened using open() is closed automaticaly after iterationg
> over it in the python shell

You can interrogate a file to ask whether it is closed; the ‘closed’
attribute will be True when the file is closed.

> testfile = open('test.txt')
> for line in testfile:
>     print(line)

What happens if you insert this line before the ‘print’ statement::

    for line in testfile:
        assert (not testfile.closed), "file was closed unexpectedly!"
        print(line)

If what you say is true, that ‘assert’ statement will raise an exception
with that custom message.

> the first time the code runs well and gives me the expected result.
> the secod time that i run the loop, nothing is printed on the screen.

If you try to read from a file that is already closed, an error occurs::

    >>> testfile.close()
    >>> testfile.readline()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ValueError: I/O operation on closed file.

But you're not getting that error. So, some other reason explains the
lack of output.

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