1. I'm making a program that lets people lease machines. They can issue a command to lease 7 machines. When they do, my program leases them one by one and adds them all to an exit stack, so in case there aren't 7 machines available, all the machines we leased get released and the situation is back to normal. If everything goes fine, I do pop_all on the exit stack so it doesn't get exited and the machines stay leased, then the command exits and the user gets his machines.

2. I have a test suite that creates a temporary folder to put files that are used by the test. The temporary folder is created by a context manager that deletes it at the end. But, if the test fails I want to move the temporary folder away into a dedicated folder for the user to be able to examine those files later to figure out why the test fails. So I want to tell the temporary folder context manager to not delete the folder, because it'll fail since it was moved away so it's not at the expected location.

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On Nov 18, 2016 21:27, "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

On 06.11.2016 09:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

I'm having a lot of difficulty in understanding your use-case here, and so maybe I've completely misunderstood something.

Although, this thread is dead for a week or so, I am still curious to hear the real-world use-case. I am equally puzzled by the fact that somebody really wants to use a context manager not to work like a context manager; without even considering not to use context managers at all and using regular functions instead.

Cheers,
Sven