Confused about Python's with statement

Question

I saw some code in the Whoosh documentation:

with ix.searcher() as searcher:
    query = QueryParser(\"content\", ix.schema).parse(u\"ship\")
    results = searc         


        

Answer 1

Read http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/ it explains what the with statement is and how it looks in try .. finally form.