Index: Doc/howto/doanddont.rst
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--- Doc/howto/doanddont.rst	(revision 84067)
+++ Doc/howto/doanddont.rst	(working copy)
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 So, try to make as few ``except`` clauses in your code --- those will usually be
 a catch-all in the :func:`main`, or inside calls which should always succeed.
 
-So, the best version is probably ::
+So, an even better version is probably ::
 
    def get_status(file):
        return open(file).readline()
@@ -196,7 +196,9 @@
 
 The last version is not very good either --- due to implementation details, the
 file would not be closed when an exception is raised until the handler finishes,
-and perhaps not at all in non-C implementations (e.g., Jython). ::
+and perhaps not at all in non-C implementations (e.g., Jython).  So it would be
+even better to use the ``open()`` call as a context manager to ensure the file
+gets closed as soon as the function returns::
 
    def get_status(file):
        with open(file) as fp: