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Contexts should have __enter__ and __exit__ methods

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Since Aug 11, 2014.

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easy enhancement

... so we can use them in with statements.

with Context() as ctxt:
    # do some stuff

We can already hack something with contextlib.closing, but it would be nicer if we didn't have to.

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