Do I have to do StringIO.close()?

Question

Some code:

import cStringIO

def f():
    buffer = cStringIO.StringIO()
    buffer.write(\'something\')
    return buffer.getvalue()

The docume

Answer 1

I wound up using a try block to handle it.

import cStringIO

def f():
    buffer = cStringIO.StringIO()
    try:
        buffer.write('something')
        return buffer.getvalue()
    finally:
        buffer.close()