On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 16:56, Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckha...@dominolaser.com> wrote: > To be extra safe or in more complicated scenarios, I could wrap this in a > try-except and explicitly close those that were already created, but > normally I'd expect the garbage collector to do that for me ... or am I then > implicitly assuming a specific implementation?
I'm no expert but I believe the basic garbage collection behavior is part of the language, and it's only details of breaking cycles that are specific to CPython -- can anyone correct me if I'm wrong? -- Rami Chowdhury "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice." -- Hanlon's Razor +44-7581-430-517 / +1-408-597-7068 / +88-0189-245544 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
