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<[email protected]>, gelonida 
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> I've been told, that following code snippet is not good.
> 
> open("myfile","w").write(astring) ...

I do that for reads, but never for writes.

For writes, you want to give a chance for write errors to raise an exception 
and alert the user, instead of failing silently, to avoid inadvertent data 
loss. Hence the explicit close.
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