On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:49:52 -0400, Charles Yeomans wrote: >> Even CPython doesn't rely completely on reference counting (it has a >> fallback gc for cyclic garbage). Python introduced the "with" >> statement to get away from the kludgy CPython programmer practice of >> opening files and relying on the file being closed when the last >> reference went out of scope. > > I'm curious as you why you consider this practice to be kludgy; my > experience with RAII is pretty good.
Because it encourages harmful laziness. Laziness is only a virtue when it leads to good code for little effort, but in this case, it leads to non- portable code. Worse, if your data structures include cycles, it also leads to resource leaks. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
