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Re: Is this overuse a context manager?

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Date Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:08:38 -0700
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Neil Cerutti wrote:
> I use them all the time now, even when the resource being managed
> is used for just one line, and never need be assigned an explicit
> name. Is it good style, or annoying?
> 
>     with open(in_fname, newline='') as in_file:
>         folk = list(csv.DictReader(in_file))
> 
> The obvious alternative is:
> 
>     folk = list(csv.DictReader(open(in_fname, newline='')))

I can see that it might take some getting used to, but I suspect the 
context managers are the better style: it clearly denotes the lifespan 
of the managed object, and provides for resource clean-up.  (I know, 
files are already automatically cleaned up -- at least in cpython; but 
not every managed object will be a file.)

~Ethan~

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Is this overuse a context manager? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-26 13:24 +0000
  Re: Is this overuse a context manager? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-26 11:08 -0700
  Re: Is this overuse a context manager? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-26 14:05 -0400

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