[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343

Wed Jul 6 12:01:09 CEST 2005

Michael Sparks wrote:
> On Monday 04 Jul 2005 03:10, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 
>>At 03:41 PM 7/3/2005 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>>
>>>[Michael Hudson]
>>>
>>>>This is possible.  I just wanted to expand everyone's minds :)
>>>
>>>The mechanism is more general than resourcemanagement.  
>>
>>Expand your mind.  :) "Resource" can include whatever objects you want it
>>to -- or no objects at all.
> 
> 
> Is printing HTML and guaranteeing ending tags a resource ? I've been reading 
> this thread, and been thinking that Holger Kregel's XPython hack could be 
> implemented using the new with statement.
> 
> with some_encoding:
>    with html:
>       with body:
>          with h1:
>             print "Some heading"
>          with p:
>             print "This is paragraph 1"
>          with p:
>             print "This is paragraph 2"
>          with h2:
>             print "Another heading"
> 
> The enter/exit for html would be to print <html> </html> respectively and so 
> on. (Though "p" would be special cased, etc)

Phillip's 'context' terminology, on the other hand, applies beautifully:

- encoding context
- HTML context
- HTML body context
- HTML heading 1 context
- HTML paragraph context

I think we have a winner. . .

Cheers,
Nick.

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