My first Python program

[Chris Kaynor]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Seebs <usenet-nospam at seebs.net> wrote:

> On 2010-10-13, Chris Torek <nospam at torek.net> wrote:
> > Unfortunately "with" is newish and this code currently has to
> > support python 2.3 (if not even older versions).
>
> I think it might be 2.4 and later.  I'm not sure.  Of course, this being
> the real world, the chances that I'll be able to stick with "Python 2" and
> not have to simultaneously also support Python 1 and Python 3 are probably
> about 20%.
>

I'm fairly sure the with statement was first added in 2.5. In 2.5, you need
to use "from __future__ import with_statement" to enable it - in 2.6 it is
always enabled (the future import is still allowed for backwards
compatibility, but it does nothing).


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