On Nov 2, 2012 8:06 AM, "Yuval Greenfield" <ubershmekel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been remiss in not mentioning the new alternative in 3.3 for
>> handling nesting of complex context management stacks:
>>
>>     with contextlib.ExitStack() as cm:
>>         p1 = cm.enter_context(open('/etc/passwd'))
>>         p2 = cm.enter_context(open('/etc/passwd'))
>>
>> (Note: ExitStack is really intended for cases where the number of
>> context managers involved varies dynamically, such as when you want to
>> make a CM optional, but you *can* use it for static cases if it seems
>> appropriate)
>>
>
> Go's "defer" is quite a neat solution for these hassles if anyone's in the mood for a time machine discussion.
>
> http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#defer

Go was one of the reference points for the ExitStack design (it's a large part of why the API also supports providing callbacks directly to the exit stack, not just as context managers).

Cheers,
Nick.

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>
> Yuval Greenfield