On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:56:38 -0700, bukzor wrote:
> On May 21, 5:37 pm, Nikhil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> if os.path.exists('file'):
>> open('file', 'w').close()
>>
>> Right?
>
> You only want to blank it if it exists? If it doesn't exist you won't
> create it.
> The .close() is superlative: since you don't keep the value, it gets
> deallocated and closed by the destructor.
The language neither guarantees *when* an object will be deallocated nor
that its destructor is called *at all*. It's cleaner to explicitly close
the file.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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