What is the equivalent of the C# “using” block in IronPython?

Question

What\'s the equivalent of this in IronPython? Is it just a try-finally block?

using (var something = new ClassThatImp         


        

Answer 1

There is the with statement: http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/magic-methods.html#context-managers-and-the-with-statement

with open(filename) as handle:
    data = handle.read()
    ...