From f63e6ab4df14efcb39206c2b5435da5d755b1c78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Brown <33289025+rijobro@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:30:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] close files after reading

---
 PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py b/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py
index e4182c74..ee96d100 100644
--- a/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py
+++ b/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ def __init__(self, annotation_file=None):
         if not annotation_file == None:
             print('loading annotations into memory...')
             tic = time.time()
-            dataset = json.load(open(annotation_file, 'r'))
+            with open(annotation_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as openFile:
+                dataset = json.load(openFile)
             assert type(dataset)==dict, 'annotation file format {} not supported'.format(type(dataset))
             print('Done (t={:0.2f}s)'.format(time.time()- tic))
             self.dataset = dataset
@@ -314,7 +315,8 @@ def loadRes(self, resFile):
         print('Loading and preparing results...')
         tic = time.time()
         if type(resFile) == str or (PYTHON_VERSION == 2 and type(resFile) == unicode):
-            anns = json.load(open(resFile))
+            with open(resFile, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as openFile:
+                anns = json.load(openFile)
         elif type(resFile) == np.ndarray:
             anns = self.loadNumpyAnnotations(resFile)
         else:
@@ -438,4 +440,4 @@ def annToMask(self, ann):
         """
         rle = self.annToRLE(ann)
         m = maskUtils.decode(rle)
-        return m
\ No newline at end of file
+        return m