[pejoculant]

Compound with statements are nice, put this is not a 3.1 feature. This was added in 2.7: http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-wit...

[archangel_one]

Despite the numbering, 2.7 was released a year after 3.1. It added a bunch of features that helped compatibility with 3.x.

[throwaway54-762]

Thanks, I forgot about that.

[briancurtin]

It was a feature to both. Check the same document for the 3.1 release (and the What's New).

[koenigdavidmj]

And you could hack this with contextlib.nested before.