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]

Derek Fountain wrote:

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?

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]

> PIL works with image objects, not files. It automagically closes the

file when it doesn't need it any more.
Ah, OK. As a Python newbie, it's these details I still need to think through
properly.
If you don't trust PIL, do this:

Oh, I trust it. Really!

Thanks!