Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> That's not a bug, it's a feature. If the object doesn't have a
> 'close()'
> method, clearly it doesn't need to be closed. If it's the "wrong"
> object
> for what you're using it for in the body of the 'with' block, it'll
> show up
> there, so this doesn't hide any errors.
For those semantics, I think one of the following would be better:
with local(obj):
with scoped(obj):
but those semantics apply better to __enter__ and __exit__ anyway.
I think a "closing adaptor" should only work with objects that have a
close() method.
Perhaps:
with scoped_closable(obj):
Tim Delaney
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