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Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy!

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy!
Date 2016-05-07 18:24 +1200
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References (2 earlier) <mailman.436.1462566630.32212.python-list@python.org> <ngj86q$ia$1@dont-email.me> <572D28CF.3080100@stoneleaf.us> <mailman.439.1462577357.32212.python-list@python.org> <ngjatb$7g9$1@dont-email.me>

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DFS wrote:
> Maybe it worked because the last time the file was written to was in a 
> for loop, so I got lucky and the files weren't truncated?  Don't know.

It "works" because CPython disposes of objects as soon
as they are not referenced anywhere. Other implementations
of Python (e.g. Jython, PyPy) might not do that.

-- 
Greg

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A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-06 15:10 -0400
  Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-05-06 21:30 +0100
    Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-06 19:12 -0400
      Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-05-06 16:29 -0700
        Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-06 19:58 -0400
          Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-05-07 01:38 +0100
          Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-05-06 23:03 -0700
          Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-05-07 18:24 +1200
            Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-05-07 08:51 +0000
  Re: A fun python CLI program for all to enjoy! Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-05-07 15:59 +0200

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