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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Using 'with open(...) as ...' (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:10:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:56:01 +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:

>     with open(args.config_file, 'r') as config_file:

I never bother with putting files into context managers. This is not a 
good idea for files open for writing, but even for read-only files (as 
here), CPython will close the file when the object goes out of scope 
anyway.