From a3c881ae7877a8061fb671d016ab7d53ae9172af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Cupitt <jcupitt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:08:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] support "with Vips.Image" in Python

though it doesn't actually do anything, it looks nice
---
 ChangeLog      | 1 +
 python/Vips.py | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0af100b6..639c4e8e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - added bandand() bandor() bandeor() convenience funcs to Python
 - oops, base64 encode could pad by up to two zero bytes
 - added VipsRefString as a thing that gi bindings can unpack
+- support "with Vips.Image as ...:" in Python
 
 7/5/15 started 8.0.3
 - dzsave and tif pyr write could fail for some image dimensions, thanks Jonas
diff --git a/python/Vips.py b/python/Vips.py
index 95e6d0fc..bbce5550 100644
--- a/python/Vips.py
+++ b/python/Vips.py
@@ -588,6 +588,12 @@ class Image(Vips.Image):
 
     # we can use Vips.Image.write_to_memory() directly
 
+    # support with in the most trivial way
+    def __enter__(self):
+        return self
+    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
+        pass
+
     # operator overloads
 
     def __getattr__(self, name):