"Bryan" wrote > the above is not the same. make the a = ... raise an exception and you'll see > the difference. > > s = ... # > a = 1/0 > s.close() > > as you can see, s.close() will never be called. also, in this example, i > intentionally didn't put > the extra try/except around the try/finally statement.
file handles and sockets are closed when the objects are garbage collected. under CPython, they're usually closed when they go out of scope. using try/finally on files and sockets are usually overkill. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
