BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > On 8/30/06, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is my data safer if I explicitly close, like this?: >> fileptr = open("the.file", "w") >> foo_obj.write(fileptr) >> fileptr.close() > > Have you ever experienced a problem caused by not explicitly closing > your file handles? >
No. If I had, I wouldn't have asked the question. It seems to work, but can I really count on it? I am a sample of one (In that happy place that Brooks described as quadrant 1, where a person writes programs for himself to be run on his own computer. Or perhaps to be run by a handful of co-workers.) Such a small sample isn't statistically significant; a 100% success rate doesn't mean much. I've also never had a burned CD go bad, but I know that they do. /Dan -- dedded att verizon dott net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list