New submission from Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Seems like file.close() in 3.0 isn't much of a barrier to further reading:
% python3.0 Python 3.0rc3+ (py3k:67338M, Nov 22 2008, 06:47:23) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> fp = open("/etc/services") >>> ct = fp.read(1048) >>> print (ct[-80:], end='') ; fp.close() ; ct = fp.read(17) ; print (ct) compressnet 2/udp # Management Utility compressnet 2/tcp # Management Utility The second read() should raise an exception. Same code, 2.6: % python2.6 Python 2.6+ (release26-maint:66821:66833, Oct 30 2008, 22:16:1) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from __future__ import print_function >>> fp = open("/etc/services") >>> ct = fp.read(1048) >>> print (ct[-80:], end='') ; fp.close() ; ct = fp.read(17) ; print (ct) compressnet 2/udp # Management Utility Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: I/O operation on closed file compressnet 2/tcp # M>>> Culled this from a posting to comp.lang.python. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 77376 nosy: skip.montanaro severity: normal status: open title: close() seems to have limited effect type: behavior versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4604> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com