[Python-ideas] Nested with statements

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 27 Apr 2009, at 20:33, Mattias Brändström wrote:
>
[...]
> It would be really useful to have a shorthand for creating truly
> nested with statements. My idea then is this: couldn't the language be
> tweaked to handle this? It might look something like this:
>
> with A(), B() as a,b:
>    # Code that uses a and b.
>
> This would translate directly to:
>
> with A() as a:
>    with B() as b:
>        # Code that uses a and b.

There was a discussion about this on this list:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-March/003188.html

I can't remember the outcome.

-- 
Arnaud