On Monday 04 Jul 2005 03:10, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 03:41 PM 7/3/2005 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Michael Hudson]
This is possible. I just wanted to expand everyone's minds :)
The mechanism is more general than resourcemanagement.
Expand your mind. :) "Resource" can include whatever objects you want it to -- or no objects at all.
Is printing HTML and guaranteeing ending tags a resource ? I've been reading this thread, and been thinking that Holger Kregel's XPython hack could be implemented using the new with statement.
with some_encoding: with html: with body: with h1: print "Some heading" with p: print "This is paragraph 1" with p: print "This is paragraph 2" with h2: print "Another heading"
The enter/exit for html would be to print <html> </html> respectively and so on. (Though "p" would be special cased, etc)
Personally it seems to me that "with" is more a form of *guarantee* - something that has a guard to enter the block, and something that does something after the block.
From that perspective you could even imagine:
with enforce_conditions(pre,post): do some work. ... ...
enforce_conditions - enforces the "pre" before entering the block, and may choose to throw an exception if the precondition is false. - checks that "post" holds after the block, and may throw an exception if the postcondition is false.
Again, I don't really see that as a resource type scenario. It *may* involve a resource scenario, but it may not. (eg did a condition finish within a certain time?)
Perhaps calling it a guarantor? (or similar) * You can guarantee that you have the lock on a resource if you enter the block ? * You can guarantee that you will have properly form (X|HT)ML if using an appropriate approach ? * You can guarantee checking of post conditions in a uniform manner ?
(Assumption: That the word guarantee in this case matches that of the intent)
If you just call the with statement a "resource manager" I suspect that people will more /naturally/ think just along the idea of resources, rather than also along the lines of things that need guarantees.
Is that really a resource type scenario?
Best Regards,
Michael.