May 1, 2006
1:55 p.m.
On May 1, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
1. PEP 343, 2.5 alpha 1, 2.5 alpha 2 and the discussions here have no doubt seriously confused the meaning of the term 'context manager' for a lot of people (you can certainly put me down as one such person). Anyone not already confused is likely to *become* confused if we subtly change the meaning in alpha 3.
Don't forget that the majority of users will never have heard any of these discussions nor have used 2.5a1 or 2.5a2. Choose the best term for them, not for the readers of python-dev. James