[Python-Dev] anonymous blocks

[Steven Bethard]

On 4/21/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It strikes me that with something like this lexical declaration, we
> > could abuse decorators as per Carl Banks's recipe[1] to get the
> > equivalent of thunks:
> 
> "abuse" being the operative word.

Yup.  I was just drawing the parallel between:

@withfile("readme.txt")
def thunk(fileobj):
    for line in fileobj:
        print line

and

@withfile("readme.txt"):
    # called by withfile as thunk(fileobj=<file object>)
    for line in fileobj:
        print line

STeVe
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