Re: [Python-ideas] A real limitation of contextlib.nested()

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Dedicated syntax (such as the form that Christian proposed) would fix this problem:

with lock, (open(infile) as fin), (open(outfile, 'w') as fout): fout.write(fin.read())

Could 'and' possibly be used sense it is a flow control operator in python. with lock and open(infile) as fin and open(outfile, 'w' as fout: fout.write(fin.read()) Ron