closing

Return a context manager that closes thing upon completion of the block. This is basically equivalent to:

Syntax

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contextlib.closing(thing)

Examples

Example 1

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from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def closing(thing):
    try:
        yield thing
    finally:
        thing.close()

Example 2

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from contextlib import closing
from urllib.request import urlopen

with closing(urlopen('https://www.python.org')) as page:
    for line in page:
        print(line)

See Also

with context manager with urlopen()