PIL: Do I need to close?

[Derek Fountain]

I've just started looking at the PIL module. There doesn't seem to be a
close method. Is that right? I just open the image file, and never need to
close it?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: Do I need to close?

Derek Fountain wrote:
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> I've just started looking at the PIL module. There doesn't seem to be a
> close method. Is that right? I just open the image file, and never need to
> close it?[/color]

PIL works with image objects, not files. It automagically closes the
file when it doesn't need it any more.

If you don't trust PIL, do this:

fp = open(filename, "rb")
im = Image.open(fp) # open from file object
im.load() # make sure PIL has read the data
fp.close()

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[Derek Fountain]

Re: Do I need to close?

> PIL works with image objects, not files. It automagically closes the[color=blue]
> file when it doesn't need it any more.[/color]

Ah, OK. As a Python newbie, it's these details I still need to think through
properly.
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> If you don't trust PIL, do this:[/color]

Oh, I trust it. Really!

Thanks!