Issue #7568: typo in docstring. Thanks Mike Putnam.
[python.git] / Lib / contextlib.py
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1 """Utilities for with-statement contexts. See PEP 343."""
3 import sys
4 from functools import wraps
5 from warnings import warn
7 __all__ = ["contextmanager", "nested", "closing"]
9 class GeneratorContextManager(object):
10 """Helper for @contextmanager decorator."""
12 def __init__(self, gen):
13 self.gen = gen
15 def __enter__(self):
16 try:
17 return self.gen.next()
18 except StopIteration:
19 raise RuntimeError("generator didn't yield")
21 def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
22 if type is None:
23 try:
24 self.gen.next()
25 except StopIteration:
26 return
27 else:
28 raise RuntimeError("generator didn't stop")
29 else:
30 if value is None:
31 # Need to force instantiation so we can reliably
32 # tell if we get the same exception back
33 value = type()
34 try:
35 self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)
36 raise RuntimeError("generator didn't stop after throw()")
37 except StopIteration, exc:
38 # Suppress the exception *unless* it's the same exception that
39 # was passed to throw(). This prevents a StopIteration
40 # raised inside the "with" statement from being suppressed
41 return exc is not value
42 except:
43 # only re-raise if it's *not* the exception that was
44 # passed to throw(), because __exit__() must not raise
45 # an exception unless __exit__() itself failed. But throw()
46 # has to raise the exception to signal propagation, so this
47 # fixes the impedance mismatch between the throw() protocol
48 # and the __exit__() protocol.
50 if sys.exc_info()[1] is not value:
51 raise
54 def contextmanager(func):
55 """@contextmanager decorator.
57 Typical usage:
59 @contextmanager
60 def some_generator(<arguments>):
61 <setup>
62 try:
63 yield <value>
64 finally:
65 <cleanup>
67 This makes this:
69 with some_generator(<arguments>) as <variable>:
70 <body>
72 equivalent to this:
74 <setup>
75 try:
76 <variable> = <value>
77 <body>
78 finally:
79 <cleanup>
81 """
82 @wraps(func)
83 def helper(*args, **kwds):
84 return GeneratorContextManager(func(*args, **kwds))
85 return helper
88 @contextmanager
89 def nested(*managers):
90 """Combine multiple context managers into a single nested context manager.
92 This function has been deprecated in favour of the multiple manager form
93 of the with statement.
95 The one advantage of this function over the multiple manager form of the
96 with statement is that argument unpacking allows it to be
97 used with a variable number of context managers as follows:
99 with nested(*managers):
100 do_something()
103 warn("With-statements now directly support multiple context managers",
104 DeprecationWarning, 3)
105 exits = []
106 vars = []
107 exc = (None, None, None)
108 try:
109 for mgr in managers:
110 exit = mgr.__exit__
111 enter = mgr.__enter__
112 vars.append(enter())
113 exits.append(exit)
114 yield vars
115 except:
116 exc = sys.exc_info()
117 finally:
118 while exits:
119 exit = exits.pop()
120 try:
121 if exit(*exc):
122 exc = (None, None, None)
123 except:
124 exc = sys.exc_info()
125 if exc != (None, None, None):
126 # Don't rely on sys.exc_info() still containing
127 # the right information. Another exception may
128 # have been raised and caught by an exit method
129 raise exc[0], exc[1], exc[2]
132 class closing(object):
133 """Context to automatically close something at the end of a block.
135 Code like this:
137 with closing(<module>.open(<arguments>)) as f:
138 <block>
140 is equivalent to this:
142 f = <module>.open(<arguments>)
143 try:
144 <block>
145 finally:
146 f.close()
149 def __init__(self, thing):
150 self.thing = thing
151 def __enter__(self):
152 return self.thing
153 def __exit__(self, *exc_info):
154 self.thing.close()