On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Rob Schneider <rmsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The close method is defined and flushing and closing a file, so >> >> it should not return until that's done. >> >> >> >> What command are you using to create the temp file? >> >> > > re command to write the file: > f=open(fn,'w') > ... then create HTML text in a string > f.write(html) > f.close
Hold it one moment... You're not actually calling close. The file's still open. Is that a copy/paste problem, or is that your actual code? In Python, a function call ALWAYS has parentheses after it. Evaluating a function's name like that returns the function (or method) object, which you then do nothing with. (You could assign it someplace, for instance, and call it later.) Try adding empty parens: f.close() and see if that solves the problem. Alternatively, look into the 'with' statement and the block syntax that it can give to I/O operations. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
