Re: f.close() vs f:close()

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, thanks. So technically this works as documented. But then the
> standard output cannot be closed. Something is not right here.

I’m not sure I follow, but I’ve always understood closing stdout to be
a bad idea (TM). Instead, the norm is to (temporarily) redirect stdout to
/dev/null or the like.

To put that another way, why do you want to close stdout?

P
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