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[Python-Dev] pre-PEP: Resource-Release Support for Generators

Neil Schemenauer nas-python at python.ca
Tue Aug 26 07:49:01 EDT 2003 
Samuele Pedroni wrote:
>     This PEP proposes that generators should grow such a close method
>     with such semantics that the example could be rewritten as:
> 
>         def all_lines(index_path):
>             index = file(index_path,"r")
>             try:
>                 for path in file(index_path,"r"):
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                     document = file(path.strip(),"r")
>                     try:
>                         for line in document:
>                             yield line
>                     finally:
>                        document.close()
>             finally:
>                 index.close()

I think that should be 'index'.

  Neil
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