[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343

Michael Walter michael.walter at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 00:14:11 CEST 2005


Hmm:

  "Guarding a scope with a decimal.Context() object <explain effect>."

What do you think? (I'm not sure myself, but we even got a "with" in there :-)

Michael


On 7/3/05, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> [Michael Walter]
> > How about simply "with block" or "guarded scope" or something like
> that?
> 
> How would you use that to describe decimal.Context() objects after Nick
> adds the __enter__ and __exit__ magic methods?  We want something as
> direct as, "xrange objects are iterable".
> 
> 
> Raymond
>


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