[draven]

The python mechanism is more general, you can use the /with/ construct with locks for example.

[andrewaylett]

You can do the same with Java. Both are in a sense trying to re-gain the most useful parts of RAII semantics from C++: making it much more difficult to forget to clean up resources after you've finished with them.

[draven]

Or the unwind-protect faciliy from Common Lisp, that is "cleanup stuff before it goes out of scope"