[Python-Dev] With statement

[Greg Ewing]

>    with lock(my_lock):
>        # protected code

But if my_lock is already a lock object, with appropriate enter 
and leave methods, what would the lock() function do?

If the answer is

  def lock(x):
    return x

then I'd say that I don't like the idea of a do-nothing
function whose purpose is only to make the code look
pretty.

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