On Sunday 02 February 2003 10:49 pm, Paul Moore wrote: ...
which I've been referring to as acquire/release. The only property-like cases I'm aware of are properties themselves.
Wouldn't classmethods and staticmethods also be able to exploit (in a simpler way) the syntax/semantics used for properties? That's the impression I had. I do like your "unified proposal" for the "with" case (I have no idea if "with" is the pluperfectly right sugar for this, btw -- no biggie anyway, i think).
the exception should be propogated. The problem is that I'm not sure what is the best way for an __except__ method to signal that it caught the exception.
Maybe the return value of __except__ should be evaluated in a boolean context encoding this? False -> exception not caught, True -> caught ... So, an __except__ without return statements (implicitly returning None, thus false) would be a clean-up thingy that does no catching (but e.g. just rollbacks some DB transactions or whatever), for example -- a "return True" would explicitly signal the exception was caught -- etc. Alex