What is the python "with" statement designed for?

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00:00 Question
00:59 Accepted answer (Score 446)
03:32 Answer 2 (Score 102)
04:54 Answer 3 (Score 46)
06:01 Answer 4 (Score 29)
06:59 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3012...

Accepted answer links:
[context managers]: http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib...
[PEP 343]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/
[RAII pattern]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Ac...

Answer 2 links:
[PEP 343]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/
[Effbot]: https://web.archive.org/web/201007020925...
[Dive into Python]: https://www.diveinto.org/python3/files.h...

Answer 3 links:
[Resource Acquisition Is Initialization]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Ac...
[PEP 0343]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/

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