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-rw-r--r--Doc/howto/doanddont.rst5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst b/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst
index f0c688b..05d8df9 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/doanddont.rst
@@ -232,11 +232,8 @@ file would not be closed when an exception is raised until the handler finishes,
and perhaps not at all in non-C implementations (e.g., Jython). ::
def get_status(file):
- fp = open(file)
- try:
+ with open(file) as fp:
return fp.readline()
- finally:
- fp.close()
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