[orf]

It’s actually very useful to have context managers outlive their with blocks. They are not only used for files:

One example would be a timing context manager:

   with Timer() as t:
      …
   print(t.runtime)

Another example is mocks, where you want to inspect how many times a mock was called and with what arguments, after the mock context manager has finished.

[DemetriousJones]

I know it makes sense in the "scope-less" python philosopy but it still feels weird for me as a scope (ab)user in C++ and has caused me one headache or two in the past