How And When To Use Context Managers In Python

Tate Galbraith
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readAug 3, 2023

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By now, many Python programmers have used the with statement. This statement leverages what is called a context manager. The special with syntax allows developers to manage resources more safely, and efficiently than other methods.

If you’re working with external resources like files or network connections, using a context manager makes it easy. This method ensures you always set…

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