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I know Python far better than Ruby, but it looks like the semantics are equivalent, it's just that Ruby's standard `open` implementation includes the cleanup ra
by lstyls 9y ago
I know Python far better than Ruby, but it looks like the semantics are equivalent, it's just that Ruby's standard `open` implementation includes the cleanup rather than leaving it up to the caller as in Python.
- masklinn 9y agoOne difference is that Ruby does not need a special language construct/protocol to do so. An other is that Python's "context managers" are reified which means you can pass them around until you ultimately use them. It's a tradeoff.