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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2014-01-17 16:03:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2014-01-17 16:03:19 (GMT) |
| commit | c089f70b54f30398f870216925e75bff398d0254 (patch) | |
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Issue #18394: Document that cgi.FieldStorage now cleans up after its
'file' attribute properly in Python 3.4.
Thanks to Marcel Hellkamp for pointing out the oversight.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 6ace6d6..a5bbdf0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1560,6 +1560,13 @@ Changes in the Python API :issue:`18011`.) Note: this change was also inadvertently applied in Python 3.3.3. +* The :attr:`~cgi.FieldStorage.file` attribute is now automatically closed when + the creating :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` instance is garbage collected. If you + were pulling the file object out separately from the :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` + instance and not keeping the instance alive, then you should either store the + entire :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` instance or read the contents of the file + before the :class:`cgi.FieldStorage` instance is garbage collected. + Changes in the C API -------------------- |