Suppose you have three objects you acquire via context manager, for instance A lock, a db connection and an ip socket. You can acquire them by: with lock: with db_con: with socket: #do stuff But is there a way to do it in one block? something like with lock,db_con,socket: #do stuff Furthermore, is it possible, given an array of unknown length of objects that have context managers, is it possible to somehow do: a=[lock1, lock2, lock3, db_con1, socket, db_con2] with a as res: #now all objects in array are acquired If the answer is "no", is it because the need for such a feature implies bad design, or maybe I should suggest it in a pep? Continue reading...