from socket import socket, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM class LazyConnection: def __init__(self, address, family=AF_INET, type=SOCK_STREAM): self.address = address self.family = AF_INET self.type = SOCK_STREAM self.sock = None def __enter__(self): if self.sock is not None: raise RuntimeError('Already connected') self.sock = socket(self.family, self.type) self.sock.connect(self.address) return self.sock def __exit__(self, exc_ty, exc_val, tb): self.sock.close() self.sock = None if __name__ == '__main__': from functools import partial c = LazyConnection(('www.python.org', 80)) # Connection closed with c as s: # c.__enter__() executes: connection open s.send(b'GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n') s.send(b'Host: www.python.org\r\n') s.send(b'\r\n') resp = b''.join(iter(partial(s.recv, 8192), b'')) # c.__exit__() executes: connection closed print('Got %d bytes' % len(resp))