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/contextlib.html#contextlib.contextmanager [2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.closing [3] https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.suppress [4] https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.redirect_stdout [5] https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.redirect_stderr — If you want to see more of me, join my Discord server! https://discord.gg/5vVgQpK I get a lot of people asking, so here's my setup! • Visual Studio Code: https://youtu.be/PBQspYkkksU • Terminal: https://youtu.be/4RuGK3w6Mbs • Desk/recording gear: https://kit.co/Carberra • PC build: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/TmzGYN — If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask in the comments! I'll try and answer as soon as I can, providing someone else hasn't already done so. #python #coding #howto