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Re: Low level file descriptors and high-level Python files

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Low level file descriptors and high-level Python files
Date 2015-09-01 22:19 +0000
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On 2015-09-01, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:

> Don't go around closing things you don't know are open.  They
> could be some other processes' thing.

I don't understand.  Closing a file descriptor that isn't open is
harmless, isn't it?  Closing one that _is_ open only affects the
current process.  If other processes had the same fd open, it's still
open for them.

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Low level file descriptors and high-level Python files Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-02 00:57 +1000
  Re: Low level file descriptors and high-level Python files random832@fastmail.us - 2015-09-01 11:56 -0400
  Re: Low level file descriptors and high-level Python files Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-01 19:41 +0200
    Re: Low level file descriptors and high-level Python files Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-01 22:19 +0000
      Re: Low level file descriptors and high-level Python files Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-02 09:02 +0200

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