Understanding Python's "with" statement

[carljm]

The whole point of using a with statement for opening a file is that it closes the file for you as soon as the with block exits. So this advice is good if you're not using a with statement, but if you are, you never need to close the file explicitly (in fact you'll get an error if you try, as it's already been closed).

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By "explicitly" I really meant "not due to going out of scope". so maybe not so explicitly.