John Machin wrote:
Test:
!for k in range(1000):
! open('foo' + str(k), 'w')
I ran that and watched it open 2 million files and going strong ... until I figured that files are closed by Python immediately because there's no reference to them ;-)
Here's my code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
print 'max number of file handles today is',
n = 0
h = []
try:
while True:
filename = 'mfh' + str(n)
h.append((file(filename,'w'),filename))
n = n + 1
except:
print n
for handle, filename in h:
handle.close()
os.remove(filename)On Slackware 10.1, this yields 1021. On WinXPSP2, this yields 509.
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