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Thilina Lakshan
Thilina Lakshan

Reputation: 308

Does python close automatically opened file some times

I am using python 3.7 ( on windows 10 ) I execute following line on terminal.

open('textfile.txt')

After I try to delete the file ('textfile.txt') then os said It is being used by some program. I close the terminal and open a new terminal then I execute following code

open('textfile.txt').read()

I try to delete the file ('textfile.txt') then It's deleted. My problem is both times I did't assign file object to any variable but first time file didn't close automatically second time It was happend.

Why second time python close the file automatically ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 75

Answers (1)

Wonka
Wonka

Reputation: 1886

If you open a File, you have to close

f = open('textfile.txt')
f.close()

Or used pythonic way:

with open("textfile.txt") as f:
    d = f.read()
    #On exit with code indent it will close

print("Here the file is closed automatically")

Upvotes: 2

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