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authorKristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com>2010-06-09 08:13:42 (GMT)
committerKristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com>2010-06-09 08:13:42 (GMT)
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http://bugs.python.org/issue8832
Issue minidom.unlink with a context manager
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@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ module documentation. This section lists the differences between the API and
to be called on the :class:`Document` object, but may be called on child nodes
to discard children of that node.
+ You can avoid calling this method explicitly by using the :keyword:`with`
+ statement. The following code will automatically unlink *dom* when the
+ :keyword:`with` block is exited::
+
+ with xml.dom.minidom.parse(datasource) as dom:
+ ... # Work with dom.
+
.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="", encoding="")