Greg Ewing wrote:
From: Nick Coghlan
It's at least a much larger set than it was back when AMK noticed the deep terminology confusion in the first version of the with statement and context management documentation (which was when Guido applied the Zen and dropped the __context__ method from the protocol).
I'm in favour of the idea, but the terminology problem still needs to be solved. I think it's important that the name of the object implementing this protocol not have the word "context" in it *anywhere*.
I like __with__ as the special method name, as it very obviously suggests a tight connection with the with-statement.
The only term I can think of right now for the object is "withable object". It's a severe abuse of the English language, I know, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a concise verb meaning "enter a temporary execution context".
"Inquisitionize"? It's even Pythonic! ;) Unless I misunderstood, this (__with__ or whatever it ends up being called) would be an alternate method of implementing a context manager, so why not just call these "context managers" just like objects with __enter__ and __exit__ are? - Tal Einat