Python's contextlib is a HIDDEN GEM

The purpose of contextlib is fairly evident by the name (unless you've never heard of context managers), but it has some really cool tools that I wanted to share! Plus, there's a really neat decorator trick you can achieve with it too!

00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Using @contextmanager to create context managers [1]
06:46 - Using closing to close contexts [2]
08:26 - Using suppress to suppress exceptions [3]
10:47 - Using redirect_stdout and redirect_stderr [4-5]
14:24 - Outro

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/con...
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/con...
[3] https://docs.python.org/3/library/con...
[4] https://docs.python.org/3/library/con...
[5] https://docs.python.org/3/library/con...

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