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Only close file handle in ImagePalette.save() if it was opened internally#9444

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Only close file handle in ImagePalette.save() if it was opened internally#9444
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@bysiber bysiber commented Feb 20, 2026

ImagePalette.save() unconditionally calls fp.close() at the end, even when the file handle was passed in by the caller. This closes the caller's file object, causing any subsequent operations on it to fail with ValueError: I/O operation on closed file.

When fp is a string (filename), save() correctly opens the file internally — but only that internally-opened handle should be closed. The fix tracks whether we opened the file and only closes it in that case, wrapped in try/finally to avoid leaking the handle if a write fails.

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Hi. You've opened 63 pull requests today after minimal prior GitHub activity. Are you an AI agent?

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bysiber commented Feb 20, 2026

Hey, yeah I went on a bit of a contribution binge — I've been going through a bunch of popular Python libraries as a learning exercise and decided to upstream the fixes I found along the way. I realize the volume probably looks a bit unusual, sorry about that. Happy to take it slower if the review load is too much for you guys.

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radarhere commented Feb 20, 2026

The review load is fine.

I've created bysiber#2 with some suggestions.

wrapped in try/finally to avoid leaking the handle if a write fails.

Just for the record, could you give an example of when a write would fail?

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bysiber commented Feb 20, 2026

Thanks for the suggestions PR, I'll merge those in.

Regarding when a write could fail honestly the most realistic case is disk full (OSError), but it could also happen with network-mounted filesystems dropping mid-write, or permission quirks after the open succeeds. It's more of a defensive pattern than something you'd hit often in practice. If you think the try/finally is overkill and a plain close is fine, I'm happy to simplify it, the main fix is really just the conditional close.

@radarhere radarhere changed the title Only close file handle in ImagePalette.save() when we opened it Only close file handle in ImagePalette.save() if it was opened internally Feb 20, 2026
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