[Python-Dev] PEP 340: Deterministic Finalisation (new PEP draft, either a competitor or update to PEP 340)

[Eric Nieuwland]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> [...]
> The whole PEP draft can be found here:
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~ncoghlan/public/pep-3XX.html
> [...]
> Used as follows::
>
>          for del auto_retry(3, IOError):
>              f = urllib.urlopen("http://python.org/")
>              print f.read()

I don't know. Using 'del' in that place seems ackward to me.
Why not use the following rule:
	for [VAR in] EXPR:
		SUITE
If EXPR is an iterator, no finalisation is done.
If EXPR is not an iterator, it is created at the start and destroyed at 
the end of the loop.

--eric