conditional 2.2

Conditionally enter a context manager

Package Contents

conditional(condition, contextmanager)

Enter contextmanager only if condition is true.

Overview

The conditional context manager comes handy when you always want to execute a with-block but only conditionally want to apply its context manager.

If you find yourself writing code like this:

if CONDITION:
    with CONTEXTMANAGER():
        BODY()
else:
    BODY()

Consider replacing it with:

with conditional(CONDITION, CONTEXTMANAGER()):
    BODY()

Async

conditional supports asynchronous context managers:

async with conditional(CONDITION, ASYNCCONTEXTMANAGER()):
    BODY()

Typing

The package ships with type annotations. Type checkers and IDEs can use this information to implement type safety and auto completion.

Examples

Say we want to ignore signals when a pager application is in the foreground, but not otherwise:

from conditional import conditional

with conditional(has_pager(cmd), ignoresignals()):
    os.system(cmd)

Documentation

For further details please refer to the API Documentation.

Changelog

2.2 - 2026-07-04

• Fix the release date. [stefan]

2.1 - 2026-07-04

• Remove deprecated license classifier. [stefan]

• Upgrade GitHub workflow. [stefan]

• Upgrade .readthedocs.yaml. [stefan]

• Upgrade sphinx and sphinx-rtd-theme in docs extra. [stefan]

2.0 - 2024-05-14

• Support asynchronous context managers. Thanks to Dawid Wolski. [stefan]

• Require Python >= 3.5. [stefan]

1.5 - 2023-09-14

• Add type annotations to the context manager. [stefan]

• Update tox.ini for latest tox. [stefan]

• Add GitHub CI workflow. [stefan]

• Add .readthedocs.yaml file. [stefan]

• Pin sphinx and sphinx-rtd-theme versions in docs extra. [stefan]

• Add mypy extra which installs mypy. [stefan]

1.4 - 2022-03-09

• Add Python 3.8-3.10 to tox.ini. Remove old Python versions. [stefan]

• Replace deprecated python setup.py test in tox.ini. [stefan]

• Remove deprecated test_suite and tests_require from setup.py. [stefan]

• Move metadata to setup.cfg and add a pyproject.toml file. [stefan]

• Include tests in sdist but not in wheel. [stefan]

1.3 - 2019-01-28

• Add MANIFEST.in. [stefan]

• Release as wheel. [stefan]

1.2 - 2017-02-05

• Support Python 2.6-3.6 without 2to3. [stefan]

• Add a LICENSE file. [stefan]

1.1 - 2014-04-19

• Remove setuptools from install_requires because it isn’t. [stefan]

1.0 - 2012-05-16

• Initial release. [stefan]