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  r70342 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-13 14:03:58 -0500 (Fri, 13 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5486: typos.
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  r70385 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-15 09:38:55 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix tuple.index() error message #5495
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  r70386 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:32:06 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5496: fix docstring of lookup().
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  r70387 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:37:16 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5493: clarify __nonzero__ docs.
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  r70389 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:43:38 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a small nit in the error message if bool() falls back on __len__ and it returns the wrong type: it would tell the user that __nonzero__ should return bool or int.
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  r70390 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:44:43 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5491: clarify nested() semantics.
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  r70392 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:46:00 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5488: add missing struct member.
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  r70393 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:47:42 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5478: fix copy-paste oversight in function signature.
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  r70395 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:51:48 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5276: document IDLESTARTUP and .Idle.py.
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  r70400 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 16:59:37 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix markup in re docs and give a mail address in regex howto, so that
  the recommendation to send suggestions to the author can be followed.
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  r70405 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-15 17:11:07 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 7 lines

  Move the previously local import of threading to module level.

  This is cleaner and avoids lockups in obscure cases where a Queue
  is instantiated while the import lock is already held by another thread.

  OKed by Tim Peters.
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  r70406 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-03-15 17:43:14 -0500 (Sun, 15 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Added skip for old MSVC.
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  r70418 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-16 14:42:03 -0500 (Mon, 16 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Add token markup.
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  r70438 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-17 15:29:51 -0500 (Tue, 17 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  I thought this was begging for an example
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  r70464 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-18 15:58:09 -0500 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  a much better example
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  r70468 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-18 22:04:31 -0500 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  close files after comparing them
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diff --git a/Lib/filecmp.py b/Lib/filecmp.py
index 6dcebaa..4cbb0d6 100644
--- a/Lib/filecmp.py
+++ b/Lib/filecmp.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 import os
 import stat
+import contextlib
 from itertools import filterfalse
 
 __all__ = ["cmp","dircmp","cmpfiles"]
@@ -62,15 +63,14 @@
 
 def _do_cmp(f1, f2):
     bufsize = BUFSIZE
-    fp1 = open(f1, 'rb')
-    fp2 = open(f2, 'rb')
-    while True:
-        b1 = fp1.read(bufsize)
-        b2 = fp2.read(bufsize)
-        if b1 != b2:
-            return False
-        if not b1:
-            return True
+    with contextlib.nested(open(f1, 'rb'), open(f2, 'rb')) as (fp1, fp2):
+        while True:
+            b1 = fp1.read(bufsize)
+            b2 = fp2.read(bufsize)
+            if b1 != b2:
+                return False
+            if not b1:
+                return True
 
 # Directory comparison class.
 #