whatsnew: dbm.open is context manager. (#19282)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 3e803a3d9a31f7fee44e7e24c982d9f569b2d55f..a73af1e4f4c2fd45d99adaf6b72f11b96fd6cea2 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -617,6 +617,15 @@ The :mod:`contextlib` documentation has also been updated to include a
 differences between single use, reusable and reentrant context managers.
 
 
+dbm
+---
+
+:func:`dbm.open` objects now support the context management protocol.  When
+used in a :keyword:`with` statement, the ``close`` method of the database
+object will be called automatically at the end of the block.  (Contributed by
+Claudiu Popa and Nick Coghlan in :issue:`19282`.)
+
+
 dis
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