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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index c4f6e64..66316dd 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -378,6 +378,20 @@ by file descriptors. :func:`fdopen`, use its :meth:`close` method. +.. function:: closerange(fd_low, fd_high) + + Close all file descriptors from *fd_low* (inclusive) to *fd_high* (exclusive), + ignoring errors. Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows. Equivalent to:: + + for fd in xrange(fd_low, fd_high): + try: + os.close(fd) + except OSError: + pass + + .. versionadded:: 2.6 + + .. function:: device_encoding(fd) Return a string describing the encoding of the device associated with *fd* |