On 7/8/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam@wolke7.net wrote:
Hi,
I compiled a list of some possible new context managers that could be added to the stdlib. Introducing a new feature should IMO also show usage of it in the distribution itself. That wasn't done with decorators (a decorators module is compiled at the moment, if I'm right), but with context managers, there's certainly room to add some. Of course, my list is excessive, it's only some ideas I got by flying over the stdlib docs.
I think that is a good point about decorators. While none of us obviously had extensive experience with decorators when they went into the language we at least knew of a couple use cases that would have been handy and it probably would have been good to have examples for people to work off of. I bet iterators have gotten more play thanks to itertools and all of the built-ins that work with them.
I think having basic context managers in a stdlib module that we know for a fact that will be handy is a good idea. We should keep the list short and poignant, but we should have something for people to work off of. The ones I like below for a 'context' module are:
- builtins: with open/file
- sys: with sys.redirected_std[in|out|err]
- decimal: with decimal.Context
- os: with os.current_directory
- mutex: with mutexobj
- threading: with threading.Lock with threading.Condition with threading.Event
- bz2/zipfile/tarfile: with ...open
-Brett