Python: 5 Easy Context Managers

At the last PyCon conference, Raymond Hettinger gave a keynote talk in which he noted that context managers might be one of Python’s most powerful yet underappreciated features. Seeing how something so minor could be one of the language’s most powerful features as claimed might be a bit of a stretch. In this article, we’ll take a look at some examples involving context managers and see that so much more is possible.