[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in the process of writing some code and noticed a strange problem > while doing so. I'm working with PythonWin 210 built for Python 2.5. I > noticed the problem for the last py file processed by this script, > where the concerned tmp file is only actually written to when > PythonWin is closed. In other words, after I run this script, one of > the generated tmp files has a size of 0kB. I then close PythonWin and > it is then written to. > > I'm guessing the garbage collector is causing the file to be written, > but shouldn't close do this?
Yes. > f=open(fileBeginning+".tmp", 'w') > f.write("Hello") > f.close In Python () is nessary to call a parameterless function or method: >>> def f(): print "Hi Barry" ... >>> f <function f at 0xb7cf2374> >>> f() Hi Barry This allows it to treat functions as variables consistently: >>> def f(write): ... write("Hello") ... >>> def write_upper(s): print s.upper() ... >>> import sys >>> write_to_stdout = sys.stdout.write >>> >>> f(write_upper) HELLO >>> f(write_to_stdout) Hello>>> Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list