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| author | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2013-05-10 15:35:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2013-05-10 15:35:38 (GMT) |
| commit | d8f870d0faad949fa6ad073d35bc45ebf7074452 (patch) | |
| tree | 42ba3e97d8aa1c2685996ca32e7eaeeeaeac4025 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 173d4109b59f64eeb29601efb08497008d42dd2b (diff) | |
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I was confused before. It's correct to not call .close() inside the with
statement, but add a comment that clarifies the purpose of the code.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst index fee5067..fba48f4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst @@ -259,11 +259,12 @@ Functions and classes provided: with ExitStack() as stack: files = [stack.enter_context(open(fname)) for fname in filenames] - close_files = stack.pop_all().close() + # Hold onto the close method, but don't call it yet. + close_files = stack.pop_all().close # If opening any file fails, all previously opened files will be # closed automatically. If all files are opened successfully, # they will remain open even after the with statement ends. - # close_files() can then be invoked explicitly to close them all + # close_files() can then be invoked explicitly to close them all. .. method:: close() |