ResourceWarning when open() fails with io.UnsupportedOperation: File or stream is not seekable

[vadmium]

BPO	21310
Nosy	@pitrou, @vstinner, @vadmium, @serhiy-storchaka
Files	io_open_resource_warning.patch

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GitHub fields:

assignee = 'https://github.com/serhiy-storchaka'
closed_at = <Date 2014-06-09.17:42:46.103>
created_at = <Date 2014-04-19.03:23:49.471>
labels = ['type-bug', 'expert-IO']
title = 'ResourceWarning when open() fails with io.UnsupportedOperation: File or stream is not seekable'
updated_at = <Date 2014-06-11.04:20:06.396>
user = 'https://github.com/vadmium'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2014-06-11.04:20:06.396>
actor = 'python-dev'
assignee = 'serhiy.storchaka'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2014-06-09.17:42:46.103>
closer = 'serhiy.storchaka'
components = ['IO']
creation = <Date 2014-04-19.03:23:49.471>
creator = 'martin.panter'
dependencies = []
files = ['35403']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 21310
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 6.0
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pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue21310'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5']

[vadmium]

>>> f = open("/dev/stdout", "w+b")  # Or any non-seekable file, pipe, etc
__main__:1: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.FileIO name='/dev/stdout' mode='rb+'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
io.UnsupportedOperation: File or stream is not seekable.

It is mainly just the annoyance of the ResourceWarning, so nothing major. I think this was previously identified in bpo-18116, but it looks like that bug was side-stepped by removing an equivalent fdopen() call.

No ResourceWarning happens with an unbuffered file. I haven’t looked at the code but I guess the UnsupportedOperation might only be raised after trying to wrap the open FileIO object in a BufferedWriter object.

[serhiy-storchaka]

See also bpo-20074.

[serhiy-storchaka]

Here is a patch which fixes warnings.

[python-dev]

New changeset 1e30ecbfe181 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '2.7':
Issue bpo-21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1e30ecbfe181

New changeset 17e7934905ab by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4':
Issue bpo-21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/17e7934905ab

New changeset 9c724c428e1f by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9c724c428e1f

[serhiy-storchaka]

Thanks Victor for the review. Thanks Martin for the report.

[python-dev]

New changeset a98fd4eeed40 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.4':
PyErr_NormalizeException doesn't like being called with an exception set
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a98fd4eeed40

New changeset 55c50c570098 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
PyErr_NormalizeException doesn't like being called with an exception set
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/55c50c570098