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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> As I see it, the with statement is
> mainly useful wehre you have a well-known behaviour, where it's easy to
> find out what's going on (for example from the name), or when the
> clean-up step isn't important.

Why do you say "when the clean-up step isn't important"?

> This doesn't mean that we should avoid
> writing our own context managers at all cost, just that we should
> evaluate the benefit.

I agree, but a with statement that eliminates boilerplate code will
usually have sufficient benefit to me.

Aaron
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