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authorAmaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com>2008-11-20 23:34:31 (GMT)
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Fixed issue #4233.
Changed semantic of _fileio.FileIO's close() method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The FileIO object also got a new readonly attribute closefd. Approved by Barry Backport of r67106 from the py3k branch
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@@ -214,8 +214,10 @@ I/O Base Classes
.. method:: close()
- Flush and close this stream. This method has no effect if the file is
- already closed.
+ Flush and close this stream. This method has no effect if the file is
+ already closed. Once the file is closed, any operation on the file
+ (e.g. reading or writing) will raise an :exc:`IOError`. The internal
+ file descriptor isn't closed if *closefd* was False.
.. attribute:: closed