Impossible to use w/o the context manager?

[ZzZombo]

I need to use it w/o one, and it appears I can't do that. Any solutions?

[frankie567]

Yes, it only works as context manager. Under the hood, it uses httpx.stream, which is a context manager itself.

If you really can't use a context manager, a nice trick is to use an ExitStack (or AsyncExitStack for async) from the standard contextlib.

exit_stack =  contextlib.ExitStack()
ws = exit_stack.enter_context(connect_ws("http://localhost:8000/ws"))
message = ws.receive_text()
exit_stack.close()

[ZzZombo]

Thank you! I've found just now #11, and have already utilized the hints given there right when you replied. The key limitation was that the entry point is forced to stay synchronous, but I could spin off an asynchronous function in order to create the httpx client object previously. However, it all fell apart when I needed to use httpx-ws because the context managers would expectedly get torn down on function exit.