Sept. 29, 2010
1:16 p.m.
On 09/29/2010 02:42 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
It seems like a slippery slope. Sometimes you really don't care like when you're just hacking together a quick script.
Isn't the "with" statement appropriate in these cases?
A hacked-together quick script might contain code like: parse(open(bla).read()) Compared to this, "with" adds a new indentation level and a new variable, while breaking the flow of the code: with open(bla) as foo: contents = foo.read() parse(contents) People used to writing production code under stringent guidelines (introduced for good reason) will probably not be sympathetic to quick-hack usage patterns, but Python is used on both sides of the fence.