"Evan Klitzke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But the writes are buffered, and close causes the buffer to be >> flushed. file.close can throw an exception just like fclose, but >> it will still ensure that the file is closed. > > Is this buffering being done by Python or the kernel?
It is done in the user space, by the C stdio library which Python currently uses for IO. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
