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• The class statement, which executes a block of code and attaches its local namespace to a class, for use in object-oriented programming

• The def statement, which defines a function or method

• The with statement, which encloses a code block within a context manager, allowing resource-acquisition-is-initialization (RAII)-like behavior and replacing a common try/finally idiomcite-ref-85[83] Examples of a context include acquiring a lock before some code is run, and then releasing the lock; or opening and then closing a file

• The break statement, which exits a loop

• The continue statement, which skips the rest of the current iteration and continues with the next

• The del statement, which removes a variable—deleting the reference from the name to the value, and producing an error if the variable is referred to before it is redefined cite-ref-86[c]

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