[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sun Aug 20 22:04:34 EDT 2017


On Sun, Aug 20, 2017, 03:08 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:21:03 -0700
> Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The way we came to "logical context" was via "logical thread (of
> control)",
> > which is distinct from OS thread. But I think we might need to search for
> > another term...
>
> Perhaps "task context"?  A "task" might be a logical thread, OS thread,
> or anything else that deserves a distinct set of implicit parameters.
>

Maybe this is skirting too loose to the dynamic scoping, but maybe
ContextFrame? This does start to line up with frames of execution which I
know is a bit low-level, but then again most people will never need to know
about this corner of Python.

-brett


> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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