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Tue Jun 16 05:20:53 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-June/090076.html

On 14Jun2009 16:42, Mark Seaborn <mrs at mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
| I use a convenience function like this, so that GC takes care of the FDs:
| 
| def make_pipe():
|     read_fd, write_fd = os.pipe()
|     return os.fdopen(read_fd, "r"), os.fdopen(write_fd, "w")

Not guarrenteed to be timely. The try/except at least closes things as
control passes out of the relevant scope. I don't think all pythons
do immediate ref-counted GC.

But it's very neat!
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