Is it possible to have an optional with/as statement in python?

Question

Instead of this:

FILE = open(f)
do_something(FILE)
FILE.close()

it\'s better to use this:

with open(f) as FILE:
    do_some         


        

Answer 1

This seems to solve all of your concerns.

if file_name is not None:
    with open(file_name) as fh:
        do_something(fh)
else:
        do_something(None)