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Subject: Re: Sort lines in a plain text file alphanumerically
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On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson
<devyncjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>     with open('/home/collier/pytest/sort.TXT') as file:
>         sorted(file, key=str.casefold, reverse=True)
>
>
> Thanks for the advice Joshua. I find these tips very useful. However, how
> would I close the files, or would they close after the "with" construct is
> complete?


That's the whole point of 'with'. It calls open(), then calls
__enter__, and it guarantees to call __exit__ before executing any
code following the with block. With a file object, __exit__ will close
the file.

ChrisA