Commit bde782bb authored by Matthias Bussonnier's avatar Matthias Bussonnier Committed by Tal Einat

bpo-33468: Add try-finally contextlib.contextmanager example (GH-7816)

parent a6fdddb7
......@@ -47,22 +47,28 @@ Functions and classes provided:
function for :keyword:`with` statement context managers, without needing to
create a class or separate :meth:`__enter__` and :meth:`__exit__` methods.
A simple example (this is not recommended as a real way of generating HTML!)::
While many objects natively support use in with statements, sometimes a
resource needs to be managed that isn't a context manager in its own right,
and doesn't implement a ``close()`` method for use with ``contextlib.closing``
An abstract example would be the following to ensure correct resource
management::
from contextlib import contextmanager
@contextmanager
def tag(name):
print("<%s>" % name)
yield
print("</%s>" % name)
def managed_resource(*args, **kwds):
# Code to acquire resource, e.g.:
resource = acquire_resource(*args, **kwds)
try:
yield resource
finally:
# Code to release resource, e.g.:
release_resource(resource)
>>> with tag("h1"):
... print("foo")
...
<h1>
foo
</h1>
>>> with managed_resource(timeout=3600) as resource:
... # Resource is released at the end of this block,
... # even if code in the block raises an exception
The function being decorated must return a :term:`generator`-iterator when
called. This iterator must yield exactly one value, which will be bound to
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment