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diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
index 1d23a7c..b416bf7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
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@@ -210,6 +210,13 @@ ZipFile Objects
password used for encrypted files. Calling :meth:`.open` on a closed
ZipFile will raise a :exc:`RuntimeError`.
+ :func:`~ZipFile.open` is also a context manager and therefore supports the
+ :keyword:`with` statement::
+
+ with ZipFile('spam.zip') as myzip:
+ with myzip.open('eggs.txt') as myfile:
+ print(myfile.read())
+
.. note::
The file-like object is read-only and provides the following methods: