[Python-Dev] Updated context management documentation

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Apr 25 17:42:54 CEST 2006


At 12:08 AM 4/26/2006 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>Secondly, the documentation now shows an example
>of a class with a close() method using contextlib.closing directly as its own
>__context__() method.

Sadly, that would only work if closing() were a function.  Classes don't 
get turned into methods, so you'll need to change that example to use:

     def __context__(self):
         return closing(self)

instead.



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