[Python-ideas] revisit pep 377: good use case?

[Michael Foord]

On 29 February 2012 08:23, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Craig Yoshioka <craigyk at me.com> wrote:
> > PEP377 suggested some mechanics that seemed a bit complicated for
> getting the desired effect, but I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, that
> the same effect could be achieved by having the __enter__ function raise a
> StopIteration that would be caught by the context and skip directly to the
> __exit__ function.
>
> It was the overhead of doing exception handling around the __enter__
> call that got PEP 377 rejected.
>
> One way to handle this case is to use a separate if statement to make
> the flow control clear.
>
>    with cm() as run_body:
>        if run_body:
>            # Do stuff
>
> Depending on the use case, the return value from __enter__ may be a
> simple flag as shown, or it may be a more complex object.
>



The trouble with this is it indents all your code an extra level. One
possibility would be allowing continue in a with statement as an early exit:

   with cm() as run_body:
       if not run_body:
           continue

Michael




>
> Alternatively, you may want to investigate contextlib2, which aims to
> provide improved support for conditional cleanup in with statements.
> (in the current version, this is provided by contextlib2.ContextStack,
> but the next version will offer an improved API as
> contextlib2.CallbackStack. No current ETA on the next update though)
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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