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Author hagen
Recipients hagen
Date 2008-09-13.19:29:01
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When you've become used to writing

with open("xzy", "w") as f: 

it's strange when it doesn't work for gzip.open or bz2.BZ2File.
Or is there a reason for them not being context managers?
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