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L Stewart liam at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
Sat Jun 10 00:43:27 EDT 2000 
Thank you all for your answers! Now I have another one :)

Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> [Aahz] 
> > Yes, it's closed.  The anonymous object created by open() gets
> > deallocated after the assignment; part of the cleanup is to silently
> > call close().

> While what Aahz said can't be said to be untrue, it's hard to call it
> true, either. That is what happens in the *current* *CPython*
> implementation. In no way does the language require it, and specifically,
> for JPython, it is not true.

Again just out of curiosity, what does JPython do? (CPython is the
standard python distribution or another one?)

But-that-was-two-questions-ly yours,

Liam

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