Comment on PEP-0238

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 9 23:40:25 EDT 2001


Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> The last time we solved a "it's *hard* to make sure temporary context
> changes get undone!" problem in Python was via adding ">>" to "print" <0.8
> wink>.

In other words, the solution was to get rid of the
context and make it a parameter to the operation
instead. I think there is an important lesson to
be learned there somewhere <0.000 wink>.

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