[DB-SIG] Use of context managers with DB API 2

[Daniele Varrazzo]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 03.12.2012 02:42, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:28 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> On 04.11.2012 23:24, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
>>>> To wrap everything up, as a result of our discussion, I will do the following in the next version of
>>>> PyGreSQL:
>>>>
>>>> * make connections context managers for transactions
>>>>   (may not be the optimal solution, but it's already established)
>>>> * make cursors self-closing context managers (evident)
>>>> * not implement shortcut functions (see above)
>>>>
>>>> Is everybody happy with that?
>>>
>>> Sounds good :-)
>>
>> Is there a final wording for the context managers in the dbapi?
>
> No, not yet. I wanted to add some text, but got distracted by other
> things. I'll try to get around to it this week, unless someone beats
> me to it :-)

I'd just like to be sure that the version I've implemented (as
described here:
<https://github.com/dvarrazzo/psycopg/commit/c2f284cd3b7d3b33f4de348aaac62590feda8c78#L2R554>)
is conform to the specs or if it requires any tweak.

-- Daniele