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When you create a file object, a file

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object is created in RAM, and it's going

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to remain there until the execution of

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your program ends. Therefore, it might

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be a good idea to actually close the

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file, and so that the file is deleted

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from the memory, once you are done

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processing that file. For example, in

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this script, you are creating the file

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object, and here you are reading the

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content of that file object and storing

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it as a string. So myfile.read

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output a string, which represents the

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text of the file, that stream will be

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stored in this content variable. So here

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I'm done with processing the file, then

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I can, after that, I'm just processing

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the stream that I saved in this

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variable. Therefore, it makes sense to

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apply myfile.close, even

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though this is not strictly mandatory,

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but it's a good idea to use it. So if

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you do that, you'll still get the

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correct output. Something, you should

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know now is that if you apply myfile.read

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again, after you have

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closed the file, you're going to get an

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error. It says that this operation is

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being performed on a closed file, so you

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cannot do that. So this is how to create

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a file and close it. But there is a better

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way to do all that. I'll show you that

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in the next video.

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