On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Hell, I largely wrote PEP 377 to try to get out of having to document these semantic problems with the with statement - if I'm having trouble getting *python-dev* to grasp the problem, what hope do other users of Python have?
Hell, if you can't come up with a real use case, why bother? :-)
I figured I'd try for a solution that didn't offend my sense of aesthetics before caving in and working out how to better document the limitations of the status quo :)
Perhaps you could address my worry about introducing an obscure BaseException subclass that will forever add to the weight of the list of built-in exceptions in all documentation?
Since this is really just a matter of the aesthetics of the underlying design from my point of view rather than solving a real world problem, I don't have a good answer for you.
In the absence of reports of actual problems caused by this limitation, should I consider the PEP rejected?
Yes -- sorry for your wasted efforts. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)