[Python-Dev] Merging PEP 310 and PEP 340-redux?

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Straight up-or-down votes in the full senate are appreciated at this point.

I prefer the "PEP 340 redux" version.  Both the flexibility for __enter__
to return a separate object and the ability for __exit__ to react to
exceptions are useful.

> - Today I like the 'do' keyword better; 'with' might confuse folks
> coming from Pascal or VB

I prefer 'with'.  The 'do' keyword sounds "loopy" and doesn't make
grammatical sense.


-- ?!ng