[Python-Dev] Multiline with statement line continuation (original) (raw)

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Sat Aug 16 14:47:06 CEST 2014

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:

I simply don't care. They will try it, discover that tuples are not context managers, fix their code, and move on.

Could tuples (and lists and sequences) be context managers?

Should tuples (and lists and sequences) be context managers?

I don't think that some vague similarity between it and tuples is justification for rejecting the proposal.

You might be able to have it bothways. You could have:

with (open(name) for name in os.listdir("config")) as files: ...

Marko

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