Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <mailman.3332.1238914117.11746.python-l...@python.org>, > Terry Reedy wrote: > >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> All Python objects are reference-counted. >> >> Nope. Only in CPython, and even that could change. > > Why should it?
Because Guido has said it might some time in the future. >>> Once the file object becomes >>> inaccessible, it is automatically closed. Simple. >> >> Even in CPython, that would not be true now is the object became >> involved in or became a dependent of a reference cycle. > > And how exactly would that happen with a file object? Create a cycle of objects, and have one of them reference a file object. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
