Do I need to call close on the handle returned by urlopen?

From	<krzysztof.zelechowski@syncron.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Do I need to call close on the handle returned by urlopen?
Date	2014-07-14 16:59 +0200
Organization	Netia S.A.
Message-ID	<lq0sar$r6e$1@mx1.internetia.pl> (permalink)

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The tutorial says that I should use "with open" to close the file handle
properly.  The reference documentation for urlopen mentions that the handle
returned is like a file handle but the code samples below do not bother to
close the handle at all.  Isn’t it inconsistent?

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Do I need to call close on the handle returned by urlopen? <krzysztof.zelechowski@syncron.com> - 2014-07-14 16:59 +0200
  Re: Do I need to call close on the handle returned by urlopen? <krzysztof.zelechowski@syncron.com> - 2014-07-14 17:08 +0200
  Re: Do I need to call close on the handle returned by urlopen? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-07-14 10:09 -0500
  Re: Do I need to call close on the handle returned by urlopen? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-07-14 16:20 +0100

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