[Python-ideas] use context managers for new-style "for" statement

[Aahz]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>Bruce Frederikson:
>>
>>    for i in closing(gen(x)):
>>
>> if you want the generator closed automatically.
>
> That doesn't really improve on what we have now:
>
>    with closing(gen(x)) as g:
>        for i in g:
>
> The proposed syntax puts to much on one-line and unnecessarily
> complicates another one of Python's fundamental tools.

In addition to Bruce's other followup, saving a level of indention does
have some utility.  That's not enough by itself, of course.
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