[Python-ideas] PEP 550 v2

[Yury Selivanov]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:00:43AM -0400, Yury Selivanov wrote:
>> "Context" is an established term for what PEP 550 tries to accomplish.
>> It's used in multiple languages and runtimes, and while researching
>> this topic I didn't see anybody confused with the concept on
>> StackOverflow/etc.
>
> For me a context is a "single thing" that is usually used to thread state
> through functions.
>
> I guess I'd call "environment" what you call "context".

"environment" is also an overloaded term, and when I hear it I usually
think about os.getenv().

Yury