From 6853b014e43c254033bb79917ac4e4615a9484a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Magni <150774048+magni5@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 17:12:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] immediately free up file handle fo re-use

---
 src/pynetlogo/core.py | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pynetlogo/core.py b/src/pynetlogo/core.py
index f45edce..4553dd5 100644
--- a/src/pynetlogo/core.py
+++ b/src/pynetlogo/core.py
@@ -509,10 +509,9 @@ def repeat_report(self, netlogo_reporter, reps, go="go", include_t0=True):
         # TODO issue #55
         commands = []
         fns = {}
-        fhs = []
         for variable in cols:
             fh, fn = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=".txt", dir=tempfolder)
-            fhs.append(fh)
+            os.close(fh) #immediately free up file handle for re-use
             fns[variable] = fn
             fn = '"{}"'.format(fn)
             fn = fn.replace(os.sep, "/")
@@ -555,9 +554,6 @@ def repeat_report(self, netlogo_reporter, reps, go="go", include_t0=True):
                 results[key] = result
         
         # cleanup temp files and folders
-        for fh in fhs:
-            os.close(fh) #free up file handle for re-use
-
         for key, value in fns.items():
              os.remove(value) #delete file by name