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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:59:11 -0600
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:05:50 -0700, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> As an example from today, if someone claimed to have 5+ years of Python
>> experience, but didn't know that 'with' was standard in 2.6 (or at least
>> the end of the 2.x cycle) I would be suspicious that they actually had
>> the experience they claimed.
>>
>
> >From the 2.5 help file:
> """
> 3.4.9 With Statement Context Managers
> New in version 2.5.
> """

In 2.5 the with statement requires a __future__ import, so can't be
considered "standard".