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

I would sugest to handle the file open out of the PdfFileReader

Your code will be:

import os.path
from pyPdf import PdfFileReader

fname = 'my.pdf'
fh = file(fname, "rb")
input = PdfFileReader(fh)

fh.close()
os.rename(fname, 'my_renamed.pdf')