From b37bdc2c7c35f1aa75535f273c1c67dad32873a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:29:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Do not try to fix bugs while sleeping.

Paid more attention to the comments on the report; Martin suggested just
not having a __del__() method, which makes more sense in this case.  So
I have removed it.

This closes SourceForge bug #113850.  Again.
---
 Lib/posixfile.py | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/posixfile.py b/Lib/posixfile.py
index 18f72fd0e58..23f2c8522e3 100644
--- a/Lib/posixfile.py
+++ b/Lib/posixfile.py
@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ class _posixfile_:
                 (self.states[file.closed], file.name, file.mode, \
                  hex(id(self))[2:])
 
-    def __del__(self):
-        if hasattr(self, "_file_"):
-            self._file_.close()
-
     #
     # Initialization routines
     #