Python Context Managers in 10 Minutes — using the ‘with’ keyword
Context managers made simple with sample usage examples
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5 min readFeb 21, 2022
Context managers are essentially generators that yield a single value. The topic may seem foreign to you now, but you would most likely have used a context manager before. The most commonly used context manager is the Python built-in open
command which opens a file, and is usually used together with a with
keyword as such,
with open("file.txt", "r") as file:
data = file.read()