merits of Lisp vs Python

[Kirk Sluder]

In article <7xfybo1dlj.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
 Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

> Kirk  Sluder <kirk at nospam.jobsluder.net> writes:
> > The pythonic way to do this would be to create a class that 
> > implements file-like behaviors:
....
> 
> Actually the Python example can lose (e.g. leak a file descriptor
> temporarily) if output.write raises an exception (prevents
> output.close from running).  For this reason Python recently
> introduced the "with" statement:
> 
>     with output as fileLike.open():
>        output.write("Hello world\n")
> 
> Here the file gets closed automatically (by running an exit method in
> the fileLike class) when the "with" block exits, whether normally or
> through an exception.

Ohhh, shiny!