Python Contextlib Module
Context manager utilities — contextmanager, suppress, ExitStack. This category documents 7 Python contextlib module entries, and each page gives you the full syntax, the parameter list, the return value, and a runnable example. The entries include: contextlib.contextmanager(), contextlib.suppress(), contextlib.redirect_stdout(), contextlib.redirect_stderr(), contextlib.closing(), contextlib.nullcontext(), contextlib.ExitStack(). contextlib.contextmanager() a decorator that creates a context manager from a generator function. contextlib.suppress() a context manager that suppresses specified exceptions. contextlib.redirect_stdout() redirects sys.stdout to a file or StringIO. contextlib.redirect_stderr() redirects sys.stderr to a file or StringIO. contextlib.closing() a context manager that calls thing.close() on exit. Contextlib Module belongs to the Modules & Metadata group alongside Importlib Module, Pkgutil Module, Compileall Module, Zipapp Module. You can also search across every category from the search page, browse the complete A–Z index, or try any example in the Python playground.