contextlib --- 為 with語句上下文提供的工具?

源代碼 Lib/contextlib.py


此模塊為涉及 with 語句的常見任務(wù)提供了實用的工具。更多信息請參見 上下文管理器類型with 語句上下文管理器。

工具?

提供的函數(shù)和類:

class contextlib.AbstractContextManager?

一個為實現(xiàn)了 object.__enter__()object.__exit__() 的類提供的 abstract base class。為 object.__enter__() 提供的一個默認實現(xiàn)是返回 selfobject.__exit__() 是一個默認返回 None 的抽象方法。 參見 上下文管理器類型 的定義。

3.6 新版功能.

class contextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager?

一個為實現(xiàn)了 object.__aenter__()object.__aexit__() 的類提供的 abstract base class。 為 object.__aenter__() 提供的一個默認實現(xiàn)是返回 selfobject.__aexit__() 是一個默認返回 None 的抽象方法。 參見 異步上下文管理器 的定義。

3.7 新版功能.

@contextlib.contextmanager?

這個函數(shù)是一個 decorator ,它可以定義一個支持 with 語句上下文管理器的工廠函數(shù), 而不需要創(chuàng)建一個類或區(qū) __enter__()__exit__() 方法。

盡管許多對象原生支持使用 with 語句,但有些需要被管理的資源并不是上下文管理器,并且沒有實現(xiàn) close() 方法而不能使用 contextlib.closing

下面是一個抽象的示例,展示如何確保正確的資源管理:

from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def managed_resource(*args, **kwds):
    # Code to acquire resource, e.g.:
    resource = acquire_resource(*args, **kwds)
    try:
        yield resource
    finally:
        # Code to release resource, e.g.:
        release_resource(resource)

>>> with managed_resource(timeout=3600) as resource:
...     # Resource is released at the end of this block,
...     # even if code in the block raises an exception

被裝飾的函數(shù)在被調(diào)用時,必須返回一個 generator 迭代器。 這個迭代器必須只 yield 一個值出來,這個值會被用在 with 語句中,綁定到 as 后面的變量,如果給定了的話。

當生成器發(fā)生 yield 時,嵌套在 with 語句中的語句體會被執(zhí)行。 語句體執(zhí)行完畢離開之后,該生成器將被恢復(fù)執(zhí)行。 如果在該語句體中發(fā)生了未處理的異常,則該異常會在生成器發(fā)生 yield 時重新被引發(fā)。 因此,你可以使用 try...except...finally 語句來捕獲該異常(如果有的話),或確保進行了一些清理。 如果僅出于記錄日志或執(zhí)行某些操作(而非完全抑制異常)的目的捕獲了異常,生成器必須重新引發(fā)該異常。 否則生成器的上下文管理器將向 with 語句指示該異常已經(jīng)被處理,程序?qū)⒘⒓丛?with 語句之后恢復(fù)并繼續(xù)執(zhí)行。

contextmanager() 使用 ContextDecorator 因此它創(chuàng)建的上下文管理器不僅可以用在 with 語句中,還可以用作一個裝飾器。當它用作一個裝飾器時,每一次函數(shù)調(diào)用時都會隱式創(chuàng)建一個新的生成器實例(這使得 contextmanager() 創(chuàng)建的上下文管理器滿足了支持多次調(diào)用以用作裝飾器的需求,而非“一次性”的上下文管理器)。

在 3.2 版更改: ContextDecorator 的使用。

@contextlib.asynccontextmanager?

contextmanager() 類似,但創(chuàng)建的是 asynchronous context manager

這個函數(shù)是一個 decorator ,它可以定義一個支持 async with 語句的異步上下文管理器的工廠函數(shù), 而不需要創(chuàng)建一個類或區(qū)分 __aenter__()__aexit__() 方法。它必須被作用在一個 asynchronous generator 函數(shù)上

一個簡單的示例:

from contextlib import asynccontextmanager

@asynccontextmanager
async def get_connection():
    conn = await acquire_db_connection()
    try:
        yield conn
    finally:
        await release_db_connection(conn)

async def get_all_users():
    async with get_connection() as conn:
        return conn.query('SELECT ...')

3.7 新版功能.

Context managers defined with asynccontextmanager() can be used either as decorators or with async with statements:

import time
from contextlib import asynccontextmanager

@asynccontextmanager
async def timeit():
    now = time.monotonic()
    try:
        yield
    finally:
        print(f'it took {time.monotonic() - now}s to run')

 @timeit()
 async def main():
     # ... async code ...

When used as a decorator, a new generator instance is implicitly created on each function call. This allows the otherwise "one-shot" context managers created by asynccontextmanager() to meet the requirement that context managers support multiple invocations in order to be used as decorators.

在 3.10 版更改: Async context managers created with asynccontextmanager() can be used as decorators.

contextlib.closing(thing)?

返回一個在語句塊執(zhí)行完成時關(guān)閉 things 的上下文管理器。這基本上等價于:

from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def closing(thing):
    try:
        yield thing
    finally:
        thing.close()

并允許你編寫這樣的代碼:

from contextlib import closing
from urllib.request import urlopen

with closing(urlopen('https://www.python.org')) as page:
    for line in page:
        print(line)

而無需顯式地關(guān)閉 page 。 即使發(fā)生錯誤,在退出 with 語句塊時, page.close() 也同樣會被調(diào)用。

contextlib.aclosing(thing)?

Return an async context manager that calls the aclose() method of thing upon completion of the block. This is basically equivalent to:

from contextlib import asynccontextmanager

@asynccontextmanager
async def aclosing(thing):
    try:
        yield thing
    finally:
        await thing.aclose()

Significantly, aclosing() supports deterministic cleanup of async generators when they happen to exit early by break or an exception. For example:

from contextlib import aclosing

async with aclosing(my_generator()) as values:
    async for value in values:
        if value == 42:
            break

This pattern ensures that the generator's async exit code is executed in the same context as its iterations (so that exceptions and context variables work as expected, and the exit code isn't run after the lifetime of some task it depends on).

3.10 新版功能.

contextlib.nullcontext(enter_result=None)?

返回一個從 __enter__ 返回 enter_result 的上下文管理器,除此之外不執(zhí)行任何操作。它旨在用于可選上下文管理器的一種替代,例如:

def myfunction(arg, ignore_exceptions=False):
    if ignore_exceptions:
        # Use suppress to ignore all exceptions.
        cm = contextlib.suppress(Exception)
    else:
        # Do not ignore any exceptions, cm has no effect.
        cm = contextlib.nullcontext()
    with cm:
        # Do something

一個使用 enter_result 的例子:

def process_file(file_or_path):
    if isinstance(file_or_path, str):
        # If string, open file
        cm = open(file_or_path)
    else:
        # Caller is responsible for closing file
        cm = nullcontext(file_or_path)

    with cm as file:
        # Perform processing on the file

It can also be used as a stand-in for asynchronous context managers:

async def send_http(session=None):
   if not session:
       # If no http session, create it with aiohttp
       cm = aiohttp.ClientSession()
   else:
       # Caller is responsible for closing the session
       cm = nullcontext(session)

   async with cm as session:
       # Send http requests with session

3.7 新版功能.

在 3.10 版更改: asynchronous context manager support was added.

contextlib.suppress(*exceptions)?

Return a context manager that suppresses any of the specified exceptions if they occur in the body of a with statement and then resumes execution with the first statement following the end of the with statement.

與完全抑制異常的任何其他機制一樣,該上下文管理器應(yīng)當只用來抑制非常具體的錯誤,并確保該場景下靜默地繼續(xù)執(zhí)行程序是通用的正確做法。

例如:

from contextlib import suppress

with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
    os.remove('somefile.tmp')

with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
    os.remove('someotherfile.tmp')

這段代碼等價于:

try:
    os.remove('somefile.tmp')
except FileNotFoundError:
    pass

try:
    os.remove('someotherfile.tmp')
except FileNotFoundError:
    pass

該上下文管理器是 reentrant 。

3.4 新版功能.

contextlib.redirect_stdout(new_target)?

用于將 sys.stdout 臨時重定向到一個文件或類文件對象的上下文管理器。

該工具給已有的將輸出硬編碼寫到 stdout 的函數(shù)或類提供了額外的靈活性。

For example, the output of help() normally is sent to sys.stdout. You can capture that output in a string by redirecting the output to an io.StringIO object. The replacement stream is returned from the __enter__ method and so is available as the target of the with statement:

with redirect_stdout(io.StringIO()) as f:
    help(pow)
s = f.getvalue()

如果要把 help() 的輸出寫到磁盤上的一個文件,重定向該輸出到一個常規(guī)文件:

with open('help.txt', 'w') as f:
    with redirect_stdout(f):
        help(pow)

如果要把 help() 的輸出寫到 sys.stderr

with redirect_stdout(sys.stderr):
    help(pow)

需要注意的點在于, sys.stdout 的全局副作用意味著此上下文管理器不適合在庫代碼和大多數(shù)多線程應(yīng)用程序中使用。它對子進程的輸出沒有影響。不過對于許多工具腳本而言,它仍然是一個有用的方法。

該上下文管理器是 reentrant 。

3.4 新版功能.

contextlib.redirect_stderr(new_target)?

redirect_stdout() 類似,不過是將 sys.stderr 重定向到一個文件或類文件對象。

該上下文管理器是 reentrant 。

3.5 新版功能.

contextlib.chdir(path)?

Non parallel-safe context manager to change the current working directory. As this changes a global state, the working directory, it is not suitable for use in most threaded or async contexts. It is also not suitable for most non-linear code execution, like generators, where the program execution is temporarily relinquished -- unless explicitely desired, you should not yield when this context manager is active.

This is a simple wrapper around chdir(), it changes the current working directory upon entering and restores the old one on exit.

該上下文管理器是 reentrant 。

3.11 新版功能.

class contextlib.ContextDecorator?

一個使上下文管理器能用作裝飾器的基類。

與往常一樣,繼承自 ContextDecorator  的上下文管理器必須實現(xiàn) __enter____exit__ 。即使用作裝飾器, __exit__ 依舊會保持可能的異常處理。

ContextDecorator 被用在 contextmanager() 中,因此你自然獲得了這項功能。

ContextDecorator 的示例:

from contextlib import ContextDecorator

class mycontext(ContextDecorator):
    def __enter__(self):
        print('Starting')
        return self

    def __exit__(self, *exc):
        print('Finishing')
        return False

>>> @mycontext()
... def function():
...     print('The bit in the middle')
...
>>> function()
Starting
The bit in the middle
Finishing

>>> with mycontext():
...     print('The bit in the middle')
...
Starting
The bit in the middle
Finishing

這個改動只是針對如下形式的一個語法糖:

def f():
    with cm():
        # Do stuff

ContextDecorator 使得你可以這樣改寫:

@cm()
def f():
    # Do stuff

這能清楚地表明, cm 作用于整個函數(shù),而不僅僅是函數(shù)的一部分(同時也能保持不錯的縮進層級)。

現(xiàn)有的上下文管理器即使已經(jīng)有基類,也可以使用 ContextDecorator 作為混合類進行擴展:

from contextlib import ContextDecorator

class mycontext(ContextBaseClass, ContextDecorator):
    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, *exc):
        return False

備注

由于被裝飾的函數(shù)必須能夠被多次調(diào)用,因此對應(yīng)的上下文管理器必須支持在多個 with 語句中使用。如果不是這樣,則應(yīng)當使用原來的具有顯式 with 語句的形式使用該上下文管理器。

3.2 新版功能.

class contextlib.AsyncContextDecorator?

Similar to ContextDecorator but only for asynchronous functions.

Example of AsyncContextDecorator:

from asyncio import run
from contextlib import AsyncContextDecorator

class mycontext(AsyncContextDecorator):
    async def __aenter__(self):
        print('Starting')
        return self

    async def __aexit__(self, *exc):
        print('Finishing')
        return False

>>> @mycontext()
... async def function():
...     print('The bit in the middle')
...
>>> run(function())
Starting
The bit in the middle
Finishing

>>> async def function():
...    async with mycontext():
...         print('The bit in the middle')
...
>>> run(function())
Starting
The bit in the middle
Finishing

3.10 新版功能.

class contextlib.ExitStack?

該上下文管理器的設(shè)計目標是使得在編碼中組合其他上下文管理器和清理函數(shù)更加容易,尤其是那些可選的或由輸入數(shù)據(jù)驅(qū)動的上下文管理器。

例如,通過一個如下的 with 語句可以很容易處理一組文件:

with ExitStack() as stack:
    files = [stack.enter_context(open(fname)) for fname in filenames]
    # All opened files will automatically be closed at the end of
    # the with statement, even if attempts to open files later
    # in the list raise an exception

The __enter__() method returns the ExitStack instance, and performs no additional operations.

每個實例維護一個注冊了一組回調(diào)的棧,這些回調(diào)在實例關(guān)閉時以相反的順序被調(diào)用(顯式或隱式地在 with 語句的末尾)。請注意,當一個棧實例被垃圾回收時,這些回調(diào)將 不會 被隱式調(diào)用。

通過使用這個基于棧的模型,那些通過 __init__ 方法獲取資源的上下文管理器(如文件對象)能夠被正確處理。

由于注冊的回調(diào)函數(shù)是按照與注冊相反的順序調(diào)用的,因此最終的行為就像多個嵌套的 with 語句用在這些注冊的回調(diào)函數(shù)上。這個行為甚至擴展到了異常處理:如果內(nèi)部的回調(diào)函數(shù)抑制或替換了異常,則外部回調(diào)收到的參數(shù)是基于該更新后的狀態(tài)得到的。

這是一個相對底層的 API,它負責正確處理棧里回調(diào)退出時依次展開的細節(jié)。它為相對高層的上下文管理器提供了一個合適的基礎(chǔ),使得它能根據(jù)應(yīng)用程序的需求使用特定方式操作棧。

3.3 新版功能.

enter_context(cm)?

Enters a new context manager and adds its __exit__() method to the callback stack. The return value is the result of the context manager's own __enter__() method.

These context managers may suppress exceptions just as they normally would if used directly as part of a with statement.

在 3.11 版更改: Raises TypeError instead of AttributeError if cm is not a context manager.

push(exit)?

Adds a context manager's __exit__() method to the callback stack.

As __enter__ is not invoked, this method can be used to cover part of an __enter__() implementation with a context manager's own __exit__() method.

If passed an object that is not a context manager, this method assumes it is a callback with the same signature as a context manager's __exit__() method and adds it directly to the callback stack.

By returning true values, these callbacks can suppress exceptions the same way context manager __exit__() methods can.

The passed in object is returned from the function, allowing this method to be used as a function decorator.

callback(callback, /, *args, **kwds)?

Accepts an arbitrary callback function and arguments and adds it to the callback stack.

Unlike the other methods, callbacks added this way cannot suppress exceptions (as they are never passed the exception details).

The passed in callback is returned from the function, allowing this method to be used as a function decorator.

pop_all()?

Transfers the callback stack to a fresh ExitStack instance and returns it. No callbacks are invoked by this operation - instead, they will now be invoked when the new stack is closed (either explicitly or implicitly at the end of a with statement).

For example, a group of files can be opened as an "all or nothing" operation as follows:

with ExitStack() as stack:
    files = [stack.enter_context(open(fname)) for fname in filenames]
    # Hold onto the close method, but don't call it yet.
    close_files = stack.pop_all().close
    # If opening any file fails, all previously opened files will be
    # closed automatically. If all files are opened successfully,
    # they will remain open even after the with statement ends.
    # close_files() can then be invoked explicitly to close them all.
close()?

Immediately unwinds the callback stack, invoking callbacks in the reverse order of registration. For any context managers and exit callbacks registered, the arguments passed in will indicate that no exception occurred.

class contextlib.AsyncExitStack?

An asynchronous context manager, similar to ExitStack, that supports combining both synchronous and asynchronous context managers, as well as having coroutines for cleanup logic.

The close() method is not implemented, aclose() must be used instead.

coroutine enter_async_context(cm)?

Similar to enter_context() but expects an asynchronous context manager.

在 3.11 版更改: Raises TypeError instead of AttributeError if cm is not an asynchronous context manager.

push_async_exit(exit)?

Similar to push() but expects either an asynchronous context manager or a coroutine function.

push_async_callback(callback, /, *args, **kwds)?

Similar to callback() but expects a coroutine function.

coroutine aclose()?

Similar to close() but properly handles awaitables.

Continuing the example for asynccontextmanager():

async with AsyncExitStack() as stack:
    connections = [await stack.enter_async_context(get_connection())
        for i in range(5)]
    # All opened connections will automatically be released at the end of
    # the async with statement, even if attempts to open a connection
    # later in the list raise an exception.

3.7 新版功能.

例子和配方?

This section describes some examples and recipes for making effective use of the tools provided by contextlib.

Supporting a variable number of context managers?

The primary use case for ExitStack is the one given in the class documentation: supporting a variable number of context managers and other cleanup operations in a single with statement. The variability may come from the number of context managers needed being driven by user input (such as opening a user specified collection of files), or from some of the context managers being optional:

with ExitStack() as stack:
    for resource in resources:
        stack.enter_context(resource)
    if need_special_resource():
        special = acquire_special_resource()
        stack.callback(release_special_resource, special)
    # Perform operations that use the acquired resources

As shown, ExitStack also makes it quite easy to use with statements to manage arbitrary resources that don't natively support the context management protocol.

Catching exceptions from __enter__ methods?

It is occasionally desirable to catch exceptions from an __enter__ method implementation, without inadvertently catching exceptions from the with statement body or the context manager's __exit__ method. By using ExitStack the steps in the context management protocol can be separated slightly in order to allow this:

stack = ExitStack()
try:
    x = stack.enter_context(cm)
except Exception:
    # handle __enter__ exception
else:
    with stack:
        # Handle normal case

Actually needing to do this is likely to indicate that the underlying API should be providing a direct resource management interface for use with try/except/finally statements, but not all APIs are well designed in that regard. When a context manager is the only resource management API provided, then ExitStack can make it easier to handle various situations that can't be handled directly in a with statement.

Cleaning up in an __enter__ implementation?

As noted in the documentation of ExitStack.push(), this method can be useful in cleaning up an already allocated resource if later steps in the __enter__() implementation fail.

Here's an example of doing this for a context manager that accepts resource acquisition and release functions, along with an optional validation function, and maps them to the context management protocol:

from contextlib import contextmanager, AbstractContextManager, ExitStack

class ResourceManager(AbstractContextManager):

    def __init__(self, acquire_resource, release_resource, check_resource_ok=None):
        self.acquire_resource = acquire_resource
        self.release_resource = release_resource
        if check_resource_ok is None:
            def check_resource_ok(resource):
                return True
        self.check_resource_ok = check_resource_ok

    @contextmanager
    def _cleanup_on_error(self):
        with ExitStack() as stack:
            stack.push(self)
            yield
            # The validation check passed and didn't raise an exception
            # Accordingly, we want to keep the resource, and pass it
            # back to our caller
            stack.pop_all()

    def __enter__(self):
        resource = self.acquire_resource()
        with self._cleanup_on_error():
            if not self.check_resource_ok(resource):
                msg = "Failed validation for {!r}"
                raise RuntimeError(msg.format(resource))
        return resource

    def __exit__(self, *exc_details):
        # We don't need to duplicate any of our resource release logic
        self.release_resource()

Replacing any use of try-finally and flag variables?

A pattern you will sometimes see is a try-finally statement with a flag variable to indicate whether or not the body of the finally clause should be executed. In its simplest form (that can't already be handled just by using an except clause instead), it looks something like this:

cleanup_needed = True
try:
    result = perform_operation()
    if result:
        cleanup_needed = False
finally:
    if cleanup_needed:
        cleanup_resources()

As with any try statement based code, this can cause problems for development and review, because the setup code and the cleanup code can end up being separated by arbitrarily long sections of code.

ExitStack makes it possible to instead register a callback for execution at the end of a with statement, and then later decide to skip executing that callback:

from contextlib import ExitStack

with ExitStack() as stack:
    stack.callback(cleanup_resources)
    result = perform_operation()
    if result:
        stack.pop_all()

This allows the intended cleanup up behaviour to be made explicit up front, rather than requiring a separate flag variable.

If a particular application uses this pattern a lot, it can be simplified even further by means of a small helper class:

from contextlib import ExitStack

class Callback(ExitStack):
    def __init__(self, callback, /, *args, **kwds):
        super().__init__()
        self.callback(callback, *args, **kwds)

    def cancel(self):
        self.pop_all()

with Callback(cleanup_resources) as cb:
    result = perform_operation()
    if result:
        cb.cancel()

If the resource cleanup isn't already neatly bundled into a standalone function, then it is still possible to use the decorator form of ExitStack.callback() to declare the resource cleanup in advance:

from contextlib import ExitStack

with ExitStack() as stack:
    @stack.callback
    def cleanup_resources():
        ...
    result = perform_operation()
    if result:
        stack.pop_all()

Due to the way the decorator protocol works, a callback function declared this way cannot take any parameters. Instead, any resources to be released must be accessed as closure variables.

Using a context manager as a function decorator?

ContextDecorator makes it possible to use a context manager in both an ordinary with statement and also as a function decorator.

For example, it is sometimes useful to wrap functions or groups of statements with a logger that can track the time of entry and time of exit. Rather than writing both a function decorator and a context manager for the task, inheriting from ContextDecorator provides both capabilities in a single definition:

from contextlib import ContextDecorator
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

class track_entry_and_exit(ContextDecorator):
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

    def __enter__(self):
        logging.info('Entering: %s', self.name)

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc, exc_tb):
        logging.info('Exiting: %s', self.name)

Instances of this class can be used as both a context manager:

with track_entry_and_exit('widget loader'):
    print('Some time consuming activity goes here')
    load_widget()

And also as a function decorator:

@track_entry_and_exit('widget loader')
def activity():
    print('Some time consuming activity goes here')
    load_widget()

Note that there is one additional limitation when using context managers as function decorators: there's no way to access the return value of __enter__(). If that value is needed, then it is still necessary to use an explicit with statement.

參見

PEP 343 - "with" 語句

Python with 語句的規(guī)范描述、背景和示例。

Single use, reusable and reentrant context managers?

Most context managers are written in a way that means they can only be used effectively in a with statement once. These single use context managers must be created afresh each time they're used - attempting to use them a second time will trigger an exception or otherwise not work correctly.

This common limitation means that it is generally advisable to create context managers directly in the header of the with statement where they are used (as shown in all of the usage examples above).

Files are an example of effectively single use context managers, since the first with statement will close the file, preventing any further IO operations using that file object.

Context managers created using contextmanager() are also single use context managers, and will complain about the underlying generator failing to yield if an attempt is made to use them a second time:

>>>
>>> from contextlib import contextmanager
>>> @contextmanager
... def singleuse():
...     print("Before")
...     yield
...     print("After")
...
>>> cm = singleuse()
>>> with cm:
...     pass
...
Before
After
>>> with cm:
...     pass
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
RuntimeError: generator didn't yield

Reentrant context managers?

More sophisticated context managers may be "reentrant". These context managers can not only be used in multiple with statements, but may also be used inside a with statement that is already using the same context manager.

threading.RLock is an example of a reentrant context manager, as are suppress(), redirect_stdout(), and chdir(). Here's a very simple example of reentrant use:

>>>
>>> from contextlib import redirect_stdout
>>> from io import StringIO
>>> stream = StringIO()
>>> write_to_stream = redirect_stdout(stream)
>>> with write_to_stream:
...     print("This is written to the stream rather than stdout")
...     with write_to_stream:
...         print("This is also written to the stream")
...
>>> print("This is written directly to stdout")
This is written directly to stdout
>>> print(stream.getvalue())
This is written to the stream rather than stdout
This is also written to the stream

Real world examples of reentrancy are more likely to involve multiple functions calling each other and hence be far more complicated than this example.

Note also that being reentrant is not the same thing as being thread safe. redirect_stdout(), for example, is definitely not thread safe, as it makes a global modification to the system state by binding sys.stdout to a different stream.

Reusable context managers?

Distinct from both single use and reentrant context managers are "reusable" context managers (or, to be completely explicit, "reusable, but not reentrant" context managers, since reentrant context managers are also reusable). These context managers support being used multiple times, but will fail (or otherwise not work correctly) if the specific context manager instance has already been used in a containing with statement.

threading.Lock is an example of a reusable, but not reentrant, context manager (for a reentrant lock, it is necessary to use threading.RLock instead).

Another example of a reusable, but not reentrant, context manager is ExitStack, as it invokes all currently registered callbacks when leaving any with statement, regardless of where those callbacks were added:

>>>
>>> from contextlib import ExitStack
>>> stack = ExitStack()
>>> with stack:
...     stack.callback(print, "Callback: from first context")
...     print("Leaving first context")
...
Leaving first context
Callback: from first context
>>> with stack:
...     stack.callback(print, "Callback: from second context")
...     print("Leaving second context")
...
Leaving second context
Callback: from second context
>>> with stack:
...     stack.callback(print, "Callback: from outer context")
...     with stack:
...         stack.callback(print, "Callback: from inner context")
...         print("Leaving inner context")
...     print("Leaving outer context")
...
Leaving inner context
Callback: from inner context
Callback: from outer context
Leaving outer context

As the output from the example shows, reusing a single stack object across multiple with statements works correctly, but attempting to nest them will cause the stack to be cleared at the end of the innermost with statement, which is unlikely to be desirable behaviour.

Using separate ExitStack instances instead of reusing a single instance avoids that problem:

>>>
>>> from contextlib import ExitStack
>>> with ExitStack() as outer_stack:
...     outer_stack.callback(print, "Callback: from outer context")
...     with ExitStack() as inner_stack:
...         inner_stack.callback(print, "Callback: from inner context")
...         print("Leaving inner context")
...     print("Leaving outer context")
...
Leaving inner context
Callback: from inner context
Leaving outer context
Callback: from outer context