Bearophile wrote: > Ulrich Eckhardt: >> a way to automatically release the resource, something >> which I would do in the destructor in C++. > > Is this helpful? > http://effbot.org/pyref/with.htm
Yes, it aims in the same direction. However, I'm not sure this applies to my case. The point is that the resource handle is not just used locally in a restricted scope but it is allocated and stored. The 'with' is something that makes sense in the context of mutex locking, where you have a well-defined critical section. What I need is something similar to open(), which returs a file. When the last reference to that object goes out of scope, the underlying file object is closed. Uli -- Sator Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
