I was reading over some python code recently, and I saw something like this:
contents = open(file).read() And of course you can also do: open(file, "w").write(obj) Why do they no close the files? Is this sloppy programming or is the file automatically closed when the reference is destroyed (after this line)? I usually use: try: f = open(file) contents = f.read() finally: f.close() But now I am wondering if that is the same thing. Which method would you rather use? Why? Thanks, Sandra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
