[Tutor] Is there a way to use "with" across suite boundaries?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 23/05/2015 06:56, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
> '''I was using with open...:, but I'm printing a header in one function,
> calling a looping
> function to print detail lines, then returning to the calling function to
> print
> the footer. But that didn't work since the with statement only seems to work
> with the lexical suite and the file wasn't open in the detail print
> function. Is there
> a way around this, other than passing the file as I have here? Also, is it a
> good idea to pass a file handle like that or is there a better way?
>

Will you please be precise about the problems that you have, "that 
didn't work" is usually less than useless.  However on this occasion it 
seems that all you have to do is pass the file handle, it's a standard 
way of doing things.

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Mark Lawrence