Closing a Catalog

BiblioAlly use cases

Closing a BiblioAlly Catalog

A BiblioAlly Catalog will remain open until the method close() is called. After closed, a Catalog will release all system resources taken, specially the ones related to the SQLite database file.

The code for closing a BiblioAlly Catalog is below.

# Until here BiblioAlly is consuming system resources and keeping the SQL database file open

catalog.close()

# From now on BiblioAlly released system resources and the SQLite database file
if catalog.is_open:
    print('The Catalog is open')
else:
    print('The Catalog is NOT open')

The message The Catalog is NOT open will be printed in the Python console.