"Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In today's implementations of Classic Python, yes. In other equally > valid implementations of the language, such as Jython, IronPython, or, > for all we know, some future implementation of Classic, that may well > not be the case. Many, quite reasonably, dislike relying on a specific > implementation's peculiarities, and prefer to write code that relies > only on what the _language_ specs guarantee. How could I identify when Python code does not close files and depends on the runtime to take care of this? I want to know that the code will work well under other Python implementations and future implementations which may not have this provided. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list