diff --git a/docs/advanced/clients.md b/docs/advanced/clients.md
index a55fc596fb..90969cefda 100644
--- a/docs/advanced/clients.md
+++ b/docs/advanced/clients.md
@@ -270,8 +270,9 @@ multipart file encoding is available by passing a dictionary with the
 name of the payloads as keys and either tuple of elements or a file-like object or a string as values.
 
 ```pycon
->>> files = {'upload-file': ('report.xls', open('report.xls', 'rb'), 'application/vnd.ms-excel')}
->>> r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
+>>> with open('report.xls', 'rb') as report_file:
+...     files = {'upload-file': ('report.xls', report_file, 'application/vnd.ms-excel')}
+...     r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
 >>> print(r.text)
 {
   ...
@@ -318,7 +319,10 @@ To do that, pass a list of `(field, <file>)` items instead of a dictionary, allo
 For instance this request sends 2 files, `foo.png` and `bar.png` in one request on the `images` form field:
 
 ```pycon
->>> files = [('images', ('foo.png', open('foo.png', 'rb'), 'image/png')),
-                      ('images', ('bar.png', open('bar.png', 'rb'), 'image/png'))]
->>> r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
+>>> with open('foo.png', 'rb') as foo_file, open('bar.png', 'rb') as bar_file:
+...     files = [
+...         ('images', ('foo.png', foo_file, 'image/png')),
+...         ('images', ('bar.png', bar_file, 'image/png')),
+...     ]
+...     r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
 ```
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md
index aa203a8336..38da2fec36 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -174,8 +174,9 @@ Form encoded data can also include multiple values from a given key.
 You can also upload files, using HTTP multipart encoding:
 
 ```pycon
->>> files = {'upload-file': open('report.xls', 'rb')}
->>> r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
+>>> with open('report.xls', 'rb') as report_file:
+...     files = {'upload-file': report_file}
+...     r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
 >>> print(r.text)
 {
   ...
@@ -190,8 +191,9 @@ You can also explicitly set the filename and content type, by using a tuple
 of items for the file value:
 
 ```pycon
->>> files = {'upload-file': ('report.xls', open('report.xls', 'rb'), 'application/vnd.ms-excel')}
->>> r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
+>>> with open('report.xls', 'rb') report_file:
+...     files = {'upload-file': ('report.xls', report_file, 'application/vnd.ms-excel')}
+...     r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", files=files)
 >>> print(r.text)
 {
   ...
@@ -206,8 +208,9 @@ If you need to include non-file data fields in the multipart form, use the `data
 
 ```pycon
 >>> data = {'message': 'Hello, world!'}
->>> files = {'file': open('report.xls', 'rb')}
->>> r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", data=data, files=files)
+>>> with open('report.xls', 'rb') as report_file:
+...     files = {'file': report_file}
+...     r = httpx.post("https://httpbin.org/post", data=data, files=files)
 >>> print(r.text)
 {
   ...