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by kqr 3808 days ago
It depends on how you use it! If you use it to acquire the resource, as in

    with open(fn, 'r'):
        ...
then generally the answer is no, since that is the same thing as the equivalent `try…finally`. If someone removes the file after it's being opened it will not be completely wiped until it's closed.