Can someone explain 5:38 - 6:02 in the video please? He ends with "The file being open, the file would be closed"...??

What he is referring to is that unlike some other programming languages, python does its own 'garbage-collection', which is a slangy way of saying cleaning-up things like freeing-up memory and closing files, etc.

In this case, he is saying that, since Python does its own garbage collection, operations such a freeing-up memory used by - and closing files opened by - the function will automatically happen at the end of the function call.

"The file being open, the file would be closed"...?!? (automatically - at the end of the function execution)

He then goes on to say that, regardless, he prefers to explicitly close any open files with code in his functions, primarily for his own assurance and/but I agree that it does add clarity to the code.

"You open the file, write to it, then close it."

I hope that helps. Happy coding!

By the way, the fact that Python does do its own garbage-collection is one of the reasons it is easy, efficient, fun, slick, and so popular. That, and the fact that Python, for the most part, is far less verbose than other languages, such as Java.