[issue1435] Support for multiple handlers for the with statement

New submission from Stavros Korokithakis: Currently, the new with statement does not support multiple handlers. For example, to open two files for input/output you would have to do: with open(filein) as input: with open(fileout) as output: #Do stuff pass This adds

[issue1435] Support for multiple handlers for the with statement

Stavros Korokithakis added the comment: What this syntax does is similar to the nested context manager in case 12 of PEP343, but with cleaner syntax. __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1435 __

[issue1435] Support for multiple handlers for the with statement

Changes by Christian Heimes: -- components: +Interpreter Core -None priority: - low type: behavior - rfe versions: +Python 2.6 __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue1435 __

[issue1435] Support for multiple handlers for the with statement

Guido van Rossum added the comment: I don't think the added syntactic complexity is worth the relatively rare use case, especially since there's already an implementation of nested() in the contextlib library. -- nosy: +gvanrossum resolution: - wont fix status: open - closed