Python and PEP8 - Recommendations on breaking up long lines?

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Nov 27 22:06:50 EST 2013


Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com> writes:

> The important thing in a with statement is that the assigned name will
> be closed (or otherwise exited) automatically.  The open call is just
> the expression used to assign the name.  The expression there isn't
> really important.  This looks odd, but works the same as what you
> have:
>
>     input = open(self.full_path)
>     output = open(self.output_csv, 'ab')
>     with input as input, output as output:
>         ...

Excellent! That solves for me a significant irritation of the syntax for
multiple context managers. Thank you.

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