Hi, in "Exceptions" section. Instead of using: def get_status(file): fp = open(file) try: return fp.readline() finally: fp.close() Why no suggest this method: def get_status(file): with open(file) as fp: return fp.readline() which will properly close the file.
Hello You’re right, this idiom (new in 2.5, always enabled in 2.6) is now the recommended way of doing this. Note that the older code does close the file properly too, it’s just another way of doing it. Would you like to provide a patch against the latest version of this file? Regards
