reated in a local scope and returned.
Why does that make a difference?
The strangest thing about this, I think, is that the error printed out
above, EnvironmentError, is listed in the docs under "only used as base
classes for other exceptions". In other words, it's never supposed to
be
Dave Benjamin wrote:
> Here's the problem: the "mmap" object doesn't have a reference to
> "somefile", only to its file descriptor number. So, when getfile() goes
> out of scope, there are no references left, and the file gets closed
> automatically.
That makes a lot of sense. It's now how I woul
