[Python-Dev] Updated context management documentation

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 11:23:07 CEST 2006


Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 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.

D'oh! I'll fix the example :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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