On 2010-03-03 09:39 AM, Mike Kent wrote:
What's the compelling use case for this vs. a simple try/finally?
original_dir = os.getcwd()
try:
os.chdir(somewhere)
# Do other stuff
finally:
os.chdir(original_dir)
# Do other cleanup
A custom-written context manager looks nicer and can be more readable.
from contextlib import contextmanager
import os
@contextmanager
def pushd(path):
original_dir = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(path)
try:
yield
finally:
os.chdir(original_dir)
with pushd(somewhere):
...
I don't think a general purpose ScopeGuard context manager has any such benefits
over the try: finally:, though.
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