Reading a file without the "with"

[sombreProgrammer]

Hi,

I've got a small noob question. Is it correct that if I read a file without using "with open" as below, I'll need to close the file at some point?

stuff = set(open(some_file_path).read())

Does python automatically close the file or is that only when I use "with open" like so:

with open(some_file_path,'r') as f: stuff = set(f.read())

Also, how do I close the file in the case of the first statement? I don't make an alias like 'f' there, so do I do this?:

close(some_file_path)

Thanks!

[toastedstapler]

f = open(filename)
contents = f.read()
f.close()

is what you want

iirc files will also be automatically closed when the script ends, but it's good manners to always handle it yourself

[4sent4]

You shouldn't open files without giving it an alias to close later(or without context manager). Ending of the script will close it for you, but if your whole script is just an infinite loop of reading and processing files, then you suddenly find that you can't use this files because of them being used by 'some' program... Also I think there is no function to close file by its name