Python resource management

What is resource management

Managing resources properly is often a tricky problem. It requires both a setup phase and a teardown phase, such as closing a file, releasing a lock, or closing a network connection

Python resource management

In Python, you can use two general approaches to deal with resource management. You can wrap your code in:

1. A try … finally construct
2. A with construct

As the first,

# Safely open the file
file = open("hello.txt", "w")

try:
    file.write("Hello, World!")
except Exception as e:
    print(f"An error occurred while writing to the file: {e}")
finally:
    # Make sure to close the file after using it
    file.close()

As the second,

with expression as target_var:
    do_something(target_var)
with open("hello.txt", mode="w") as file:
    file.write("Hello, World!")

In Python 3.1 and later, the with statement supports multiple context managers. You can supply any number of context managers separated by commas:

with open("input.txt") as in_file, open("output.txt", "w") as out_file:
    # Read content from input.txt
    # Transform the content
    # Write the transformed content to output.txt
    pass