[Python-ideas] "atexit" equivalent for functions in contextlib

[Nikolaus Rath]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:
> On 29 January 2015 at 15:49, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus-BTH8mxji4b0 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> It's not a lot of code, but my feeling is that not anyone who might be
>> interested in an "on_return" functionality would be able to come up with
>> this right away.
>
> What does it gain you other than saving a level of indentation over
> the form with an explicit context manager?

Nothing. But if that's not a good enough reason, why do we have
contextlib.ContextDecorator?

Best,
-Nikolaus

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