"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > lines = file("myfile","r").readlines()
> >
> > have any better guarantee of being closed automatically?
>
> Yes. The file object only lives on the evaluation stack,
> and that is discarded in any case when the function terminates
> (whether through a return or through an exception). In
> addition, the object is released as soon as readlines
> returns.
It's released even if the exception is raised inside readlines?
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