Dave Benjamin wrote: > Here's the problem: the "mmap" object doesn't have a reference to > "somefile", only to its file descriptor number. So, when getfile() goes > out of scope, there are no references left, and the file gets closed > automatically.
That makes a lot of sense. It's now how I would have built mmap, but I can live with it. Many thanks, Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
