TIL “with” Does Not Create a Scope in Python

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I was surprised to see the following Python code works fine

            with urllib.request.urlopen(some_url, timeout=1) as response:
                info = response.read().decode("utf-8")
            match = re.search(r"some-count: ([0-9]+)", info)

And it turns out the with statement does not create a scope in Python.

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