Conditional with statement in Python

Question

Is there a way to begin a block of code with a with statement, but conditionally?

Something like:

if needs_with():
    with get_stuff() as gs:

# do          


        

Answer 1

A third-party option to achieve exactly this:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/conditional

from conditional import conditional

with conditional(needs_with(), get_stuff()):
    # do stuff