close method on ole object does not work in Python 2.7

[decalage2]

Originally reported by: Anonymous

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The close method is not working on a ole object.
Doing this command
*ole = OleFileIO_PL.OleFileIO('myfile.doc')
ole.close()
*
does not close the file and release the file handle.
I know this because I am running a script that does a directory crawl using OleFileIO to extract information from certain files. The script crashes with a ioerror 24, too many open files.
I have also tested this in IDLE with the same result.
Idle capture
**>>> ole=OleFileIO_PL.OleFileIO(mxd_file)

ole.close(
512
ole.close
ole.SectorSize
512**

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/decalage/olefileio_pl/issue/15

[decalage2]

Original comment by david_anderson_giss (Bitbucket: david_anderson_giss, GitHub: Unknown):

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Issue reported by me. Also was for version 0.26.

[decalage2]

Original comment by Philippe Lagadec (Bitbucket: decalage, GitHub: decalage2):

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Thank you David for reporting this issue. Could you please provide some sample code that can be used to reproduce the bug?
Also could you please give more information about the context: was it under Windows, Linux or other?
Were you reusing a single OleFileIO object to parse each file, or creating a new object each time?
After parsing how many files did the issue happen? (roughly)
Thank you.

[decalage2]

To be tested (on Windows and Linux) and closed if the issue cannot be reproduced.

[decalage2]

Maybe the bug was actually caused by isOleFile, which used to open a file and leave it to the GC to close it. A large number of calls in a short time would have triggered this error.

See #37