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Source code: Lib/contextlib.py This module provides utilities for common tasks involving the with statement. For more information see also Context Manager Types and With Statement Context Managers....

This section aims to give a quick fly-by on the various type methods you can implement and what they do. Here is the definition of PyTypeObject, with some fields only used in debug builds omitted: ...

Author, Raymond Hettinger,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.2 as compared to 3.1. Python 3.2 was released on February 20, 2011. It focuses on a few highlights and gives a few exa...

Author, A.M. Kuchling and Moshe Zadka,. Introduction: A new release of Python, version 2.0, was released on October 16, 2000. This article covers the exciting new features in 2.0, highlights some o...

Source code: Lib/curses The curses module provides an interface to the curses library, the de-facto standard for portable advanced terminal handling. While curses is most widely used in the Unix en...

Source code: Lib/urllib/request.py The urllib.request module defines functions and classes which help in opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world — basic and digest authentication, redirection...

Editor, Raymond Hettinger,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.8, compared to 3.7. Python 3.8 was released on October 14, 2019. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Releas...

Editor, Łukasz Langa,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.9, compared to 3.8. Python 3.9 was released on October 5, 2020. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release high...

The functions described in this chapter will let you handle and raise Python exceptions. It is important to understand some of the basics of Python exception handling. It works somewhat like the PO...