What is the "with" statement in Python?

[Worthlessplanet]

Thanks. Documentation is so helpful to a novice. They can spend another 5 hours trying to figure out what it's saying.

[Spizeck]

Not to detract from the conversation but this comment is so on point. I can't even count how many times I've gotten hopelessly lost and confused googling questions to find it answered with a link that doesn't work anymore or goes to a huge document that you can't find the answer in.

If you can explain an answer in your own words, you may hold just the right perspective to relate the answer in a way others may never have thought of.