[Python-Dev] anonymous blocks

[Skip Montanaro]

    Guido> or perhaps even (making "for VAR" optional in the for-loop syntax)
    Guido> with

    Guido>     in synchronized(the_lock):
    Guido>         BODY

This could be a new statement, so the problematic issue of implicit
try/finally in every for statement wouldn't be necessary.  That complication
would only be needed for the above form.

(Of course, if you've dispensed with this I am very likely missing something
fundamental.)

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