[Tutor] Python as Teaching Language

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 10:41 +0000, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
[…]
> f = open('myfile.txt')
> for line in f:
>     print(line.upper())
> f.close()

I suggest we even see this as not good code due to the possibility of
I/O exceptions:

        with open('myfile.txt') as f:
            for line in f:
                print(line.upper())

should, I argue, be the canonical idiom in modern Python.

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