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
usingremind me of Python's context managers and the with statement.within 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.