The .NET dispose pattern and the using remind me of Python's context managers and the with statement.
with in Python automatically calls an __enter__ and __exit__ method which means that the writer of the class can initialize and dispose resources.
As mostly everything in Python it does not uses interfaces but duck typing, so to adhere to the "context manager pattern" you just need to implement those two methods.
In practice it is used for file handling, connection management (mostly databases) and resource disposal.
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The .NET dispose pattern and the
using
remind me of Python's context managers and the with statement.with
in Python automatically calls an__enter__
and__exit__
method which means that the writer of the class can initialize and dispose resources.As mostly everything in Python it does not uses interfaces but duck typing, so to adhere to the "context manager pattern" you just need to implement those two methods.
In practice it is used for file handling, connection management (mostly databases) and resource disposal.