Handling instances of a context manager inside another context manager

If you can use the @contextlib.contextmanager decorator your life gets a lot easier:

import contextlib

@contextlib.contextmanager
def internal_cm():
    try:
        print "Entering internal_cm"
        yield None
        print "Exiting cleanly from internal_cm"
    finally:
        print "Finally internal_cm"


@contextlib.contextmanager
def external_cm():
    with internal_cm() as c:
        try:
            print "In external_cm_f", c
            yield [c]
            print "Exiting cleanly from external_cm_f", c
        finally:
            print "Finally external_cm_f", c


if "__main__" == __name__:
    with external_cm():
        print "Location A"
    print
    with external_cm():
        print "Location B"
        raise Exception("Some exception occurs!!")