> On 31 Aug 2019, at 15:41, Manfred Lotz <ml_n...@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> When you say COULD this sounds like it is a matter of luck. My thinking
> was that USUALLY the file will be closed after the statement because
> then the file handle goes out of scope.
It all depends on the way any python implementation does its garbage
collection. The file is closed as a side effect of deleting the file object to
reclaiming the memory of the file object.
At the start of python 3 people where suprised when files and other resources
where not released at the same time that python 2 released them.
Barry
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