[Python-Dev] Proposed changes to PEP 343

[Greg Ewing]

Jason Orendorff wrote:

>     A contextmanager is a function that returns a new context manager.
> 
> Okay, that last bit is weird.

If the name of the decorator is to be 'contextmanager', it
really needs to say something like

   The contextmanager decorator turns a generator into a
   function that returns a context manager.

So maybe the decorator should be called 'contextmanagergenerator'.
Or perhaps not, since that's getting rather too much of an
eyeful to parse...

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