Issue 18815: DOCUMENTATION: "mmap .close()" doesn't close the underlying file (original) (raw)

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Created on 2013-08-23 04:20 by jcea, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg195939 - (view)	Author: Jesús Cea Avión (jcea) *	Date: 2013-08-23 04:20
In documentation http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/mmap.html#mmap.close you can read: "Close the file". I could interpret that it is going to close the file vinculated to the MMAP. But it doesn't. It only close the MMAP object (as it should). Please, update doc to clear possible misunderstandings. Thanks.
msg197324 - (view)	Author: Anoop Thomas Mathew (Anoop.Thomas.Mathew) *	Date: 2013-09-08 21:25
Made it explicit that close() will close only the mmap, and file will not be closed. Patch attached.
msg197422 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2013-09-10 05:40
New changeset 443d12b61e5b by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Clarify mmap.close method behavior. Addresses issue #18815 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/443d12b61e5b New changeset 373907ca13e0 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.3': Clarify mmap.close method behavior. Addresses issue #18815 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/373907ca13e0 New changeset 377bd6e0f61c by Senthil Kumaran in branch 'default': merge from 3.3 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/377bd6e0f61c
msg197423 - (view)	Author: Senthil Kumaran (orsenthil) *	Date: 2013-09-10 05:41
This is addressed. Thanks for the patch, Anoop.