[Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (was r45544 - peps/trunk/pep-0343.txt)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:41 PM 4/19/2006 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>Given that naming though, I think contextlib.contextmanager should be renamed
>to contextlib.context.

The name is actually correct under this terminology 
arrangement.  @contextmanager *returns* a context manager.  It happens to 
also be a context, but that's not important.  "With" takes a context 
manager expression.