February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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Context management
The new with statement was first introduced in Python 2.5 and has been in use for quite some time. However, there still seems to be confusion regarding its usage, even for experienced Python programmers. The with statement is most commonly used as a context manager that properly manages resources, which is essential in concurrent and parallel programming, where resources are shared across different entities in the concurrent or parallel application.