contextlib.closing()
contextlib.closing() is a Python function in the Contextlib Module category. A context manager that calls thing.close() on exit. The syntax is contextlib.closing(thing). Returns: Context manager. A typical example: from contextlib import closing
from urllib.request import urlopen
with closing(urlopen("https://python.csskey.com")) as resp:
data = resp.read(). A close sibling is contextlib.contextmanager(), which a decorator that creates a context manager from a generator function. A close sibling is contextlib.suppress(), which a context manager that suppresses specified exceptions. A close sibling is contextlib.redirect_stdout(), which redirects sys.stdout to a file or StringIO. A close sibling is contextlib.redirect_stderr(), which redirects sys.stderr to a file or StringIO. More about this category: Context manager utilities — contextmanager, suppress, ExitStack. Related Contextlib Module entries: contextlib.contextmanager(), contextlib.suppress(), contextlib.redirect_stdout(), contextlib.redirect_stderr(), contextlib.nullcontext(), contextlib.ExitStack(). This page is part of the free Python Reference documentation covering 978+ functions, methods, and modules with examples and parameter details.