Re: [Python-ideas] Allow with (x as y, z as w):

On Apr 25, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Cory Benfield wrote:

This request has come up a couple of times before. ... The upshot is: the restriction on context managers with parentheses like this is relatively likely to stick around.

I highly recommend looking at contextlib.ExitStack. Once I started using this idiom, I found I wanted the requested with-feature much less frequently. Cheers, -Barry