[Python-ideas] combine for/with statement

[Carl Matthew Johnson]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Mark McDuff wrote:

> I find that I am often writing code in the following pattern:
> 
> foo = MyContextManager(*args)
> for bar in my_iter:
>   with foo:
>       # do stuff
> 
> I think it would be much cleaner to be able to write:
> 
> for bar in my_iter with MyContextManager(*args):
>   # do stuff

It's not clear to me whether that means

> for bar in my_iter:
>     with MyContextManager(*args):
>         # do stuff

or

> with MyContextManager(*args):
>     for bar in my_iter:
>         # do stuff

-0.