[issue13585] Add contextlib.ContextStack

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

>     with ContextStack() as stack:
>         files = [stack.enter_context(open(fname)) for fname in filenames]

I find this a bit distasteful. Cleaning up resources now needs something called a "ContextStack" and an "enter_context" method call. There's a bit too much terminology, and it looks like a poor man's equivalent of Go's "defer" statement:
http://blog.golang.org/2010/08/defer-panic-and-recover.html

I like unittest's addCleanup mechanism better.

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