[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3 naming

[Nick Coghlan]

On 24 August 2017 at 08:47, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> ContextVars is actually a different name for LogicalContext.  So it would
> be:
>
>   ExecutionContext = [ContextVars()[, ContextVars()[ ...]]]
>
> and you get the (thread.local similar) ContextVars by
>
>   context_vars = sys.get_context_vars()   # or whatever
>   context_vars.verbose = ...

Migrating a (variant of a) naming subthread from python-ideas over to
here, does the following sound plausible to anyone else?:

    ContextLocal - read/write access API (via get()/set() methods)
    ContextLocalNamespace - active mapping that CL.get()/set() manipulates
    ExecutionContext - current stack of context local namespaces

Building a threading.local() style helper API would then look something like:

    class ContextLocals:
        def __init__(self, key_prefix):
            self._key_prefix = key_prefix

        def __getattr__(self, attr):
            debugging_name = "{}.{}".format(self._key_prefix, attr)
            self.__dict__[attr] = new_local =
sys.new_context_local(debugging_name)
            return new_local

        def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
            getattr(self, attr).set(value)

        def __delattr__(self, attr):
            getattr(self, attr).set(None)

    my_state = ContextLocals(__name__)

Cheers,
Nick.

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