Using the 'with' statement with cStringIO objects

George Boutsioukis gboutsioukis at gmail.com
Sat Sep 27 09:31:40 EDT 2008


> So, I'm guessing you can't use the 'with' statement with cStringIO
> objects?  Is this a bug, or do I need to use the 'with' statement
> differently to get this to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> peppergrower

Neither, just not implemented. Only classes with __enter__ and __exit__ 
methods(ie context manager types) can be used in with statements. And, 
correct me if I'm wrong, I  think it's pointless for a StringIO object to 
have those.



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