[Python-Dev] With statement
Duncan Booth
duncan@rcp.co.uk
Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:07:54 -0000
On 4 Feb 2003 at 16:45, Moore, Paul wrote:
> My actual preference is for a lock object with enter = acquire and
> leave = release. Then, the idiom is
>
> with my_lock:
> # protected code
>
> This requires a separate enter hook.
As opposed to:
with lock(my_lock):
# protected code
which wouldn't.
I prefer the second, but I'm not entirely sure why. I think,
maybe, it's because the parentheses in the second one tell me
we are actually doing something, whereas the first one looks
like a variable access which is the one thing that can't
actually have side effects.
It's probably just that I've been playing with C# too much
recently (where the 'using' statement requires you to create
an object). :-(
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