Sara Khalatbari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear friends >In a code, I'm opening a file to read. Like : > lines = open(filename).readlines() >& I'm never closing it. >I'm not writing in that file, I just read it. > >Will it cause any problems if you open a file to read >& never close it?
A file is closed when the last reference to it is deleted. Since you never save a reference to this file, the last reference is deleted as soon as the readlines() call finishes. So, the file will be closed when you move to the next statement. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
