[Python-Dev] Re: method decorators (PEP 318)
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 28 22:15:23 EST 2004
Casey Duncan <casey at zope.com>:
> For some reason I thought there was a philosophical objection to 'with'
> in Python. Must have been an urban myth I guess.
I think it's considered to have quite a low priority,
since it wouldn't buy you much. Binding a nice short
temporary name to the with-ed object is almost as
concise and arguably clearer.
By the way, I happen to think there are better uses
to which the word 'with' could be put, e.g. the
suggestion of making
with lock(foo):
do_something()
mean something like
_x = lock(foo)
_x.__enter__()
try:
do_something()
finally:
_x.__exit()
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