Feature suggestions: "Using declarations" i.e. context managers ("with" blocks) tied to scope/lifetime of the variable rather than to nesting

[Ben Finney]

"mnl.post at gmail.com" <mnl.post at gmail.com> writes:

> with xxxxxx.open() as logfile:
>      do this
>      do that
>      logfile.write()
>      do this
>      do that
>      logfile.write()

That's a good sign you have identified a discrete collection of
statements that should be in a function. The function accepts
‘logfile’ as a (probably named) parameter, so that it is explit the
opening and closing of that file is someone else's responsibility This,
as you say, simplifies the code in those statements.

Bonus: you can name the function to summarise its entire purpose::

    with foo.open() as logfile:
        frobnicate_the_whelk(logfile=logfile)

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Ben Finney