[Baypiggies] Conditional Context Managers

[Aahz]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>
> def process(file_obj_or_name):
>     with isinstance(file_obj_or_name, str) and \
>             open(file_obj_or_name) or file_obj_or_name as file_obj:
>         print "First line", repr(file_obj.readline())
>     sys.stdout.write("Finished with %r\n" % (file_obj_or_name,))

Anyone using ``with`` ought to use the real ternary (reformatted to my
preference ;-):

     with (
            open(file_obj_or_name) 
            if isinstance(file_obj_or_name, str) 
            else file_obj_or_name
            ) as file_obj:
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