contextlib — Easy Playground

Context manager utilities: @contextmanager, suppress, ExitStack

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from contextlib import contextmanager, suppress

@contextmanager
def managed_resource(name):
    print(f"Opening {name}")
    try:
        yield name
    finally:
        print(f"Closing {name}")

with managed_resource("database") as db:
    print(f"Using {db}")

# suppress
with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
    open("nonexistent.txt")
    print("This won't print")
print("Continued safely")

Output

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The contextlib module is part of Python's standard library. Context manager utilities: @contextmanager, suppress, ExitStack.

Challenge

Try modifying the code above to explore different behaviors. Can you extend the example to handle a new use case?

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