gc.garbage from paramiko

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:39:27AM -0800, Robey Pointer wrote:
<snip>
> I guess that was kind of vague, sorry. :)  Python borrows a concept  
> from c++, and causes files & sockets to auto-close themselves as soon  
> as the last reference goes away.  Since paramiko supplies both socket- 
> like things (Channels) and file-like things (SFTPFiles), I've found  
> that python coders expect them to have the same del behavior as  
> builtins, allowing things like this:
> 
>     open('email.txt', 'w').write('jdoe at example.com')

It still is badish form in python, closing in a finally would be better.

Wouter van Heyst