Till Varoquaux wrote:
> One rather standard way to preserve atomicity of open/close operation
> is to use with... commands:

Why are you top-posting?

Anyways, doing just that is what I usually do, but because it's 
simpler/shorter to just call a function than rewrite the file 
opening/closing code every time I need I/O, not because I worry about 
forgetting to close the file when I'm done.