Python Feature Request: Add the "using" keyword which works like "with" in Visual Basic

[BJörn Lindqvist]

On 14 Apr 2007 07:24:32 -0700, jamadagni <samjnaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You already can emulate the using statement like this:
>
> You can emulate only assignments like this. How would you emulate
> function calls, like the ones in my example?

You can't, of course. But using the with statement:

using self.q:
    .doit()

becomes:

with self.quit as q:
    q.doit()

:)

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mvh Björn