How to close pyPDF “PdfFileReader” Class file handle

Question

this should be very simple question, for which I couldn\'t find answer by Google search: How to close file handle opened by pyPDF \"PdfFileReader\" Class

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Answer 1

If you really have to access this from the PdfFileReader object (that is: if you haven't got a reference to the file object yourself), you can use reader.stream.close()

Note that the PdfFileReader will need an open file object to access the pdf's content (it doesn't pull everything into memory from the start), so only close the file when you are done with the reader.