Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The documentation says the following about StringIO.close: > > close( ) > Free the memory buffer. > > Or else... what?
Or else the memory buffer sticks around, so you can keep calling getvalue as needed. I believe the freeing will happen anyway, eventually, if and when the StringIO instance is garbage collected (just like, say, a file object's underlying fd gets closed when the file object is garbage collected), but relying on such behavior is often considered a dubious practice nowadays (given the existence of many Python implementations whose GC strategies differ). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
