with-statements have a syntactic quirk, which I think would be useful to fix. This is true in Python 2.7 through 3.3, but it's likely not fixable until 3.4, unless of course it's a bug <wink>. Legal:
with open('/etc/passwd') as p1, open('/etc/passwd') as p2: pass
Not legal:
with (open('/etc/passwd') as p1, open('/etc/passwd') as p2): pass
Why is this useful? If you need to wrap this onto multiple lines, say to fit it within line length limits. IWBNI you could write it like this: with (open('/etc/passwd') as p1, open('/etc/passwd') as p2): pass This seems analogous to using parens to wrap long if-statements, but maybe there's some subtle corner of the grammar that makes this problematic (like 'with' treating the whole thing as a single context manager). Of course, you can wrap with backslashes, but ick! Cheers, -Barry