On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mark McDuff mmcduff@gmail.com wrote:
I find that I am often writing code in the following pattern:
foo = MyContextManager(*args) for bar in my_iter: with foo: # do stuff
I think it would be much cleaner to be able to write:
for bar in my_iter with MyContextManager(*args): # do stuff
The parts of the for statement have *no connection at all* to the parts of the with statement. They're just stuck together which doesn't make much sense to me.
When I read the subject of the original mail I immediately thought of this case:
with open(foo) as _: for line in _: # stuff
which would at least make some sense if we could splice these together as
with line in open(foo): #stuff
But no matter how common this might be, I have to agree with:
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Chris Rebert pyideas@rebertia.com wrote:
... Down this path lies Perl ...
For every combination like this, there's another one just past it on the road to Perl.
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