[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jul 5 09:01:00 CEST 2005
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:48 PM 7/3/2005 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> with context_expression as variable:
> # perform actions within a context
>
> The "with" statement establishes a context in which some operations are to
> be performed.
I like this.
> The object produced by 'context_expression' must have __enter_context__ and
> __exit_context__ methods, which will be invoked by the "with" statement
> when the context is entered...
And we could call this the "context protocol".
Greg
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