[Python-Dev] 'With' context documentation draft (was Re: Terminology for PEP 343

[Nick Coghlan]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> May I suggest that you use a different name than "context" for
> this ?!
> 
> The term "context" is way to broad for the application scopes
> that you have in mind here (like e.g. managing a resource
> in a multi-threaded application).

It's actually the broadness of the term 'context' which is appealing - the 
examples in the draft documentation on SF are:

   - resource management (synchronisation locks, generic 'closing')
   - HTML tag matching
   - Decimal arithmetic context

Any earlier version used 'suite managers' (partly to avoid confusing the hell 
out of anyone ever exposed to Ruby's concept of blocks), but the 'context 
management' term seems to more clearly describe what the protocol is for.

Cheers,
Nick.

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