'with' statement in python ?

[Gerhard Häring]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:33:11 +0200 (CEST), asgard <asgard at hellnet.cz> wrote:
>Hello,
>writing self before every object's method really drives me
>crazy. Shouldn't there be 'with' statement like in Pascal, ie.
>
>self.a=1
>self.b=2
>
>could be written as
>
>with self:
>    a=1
>    b=2
>
>? Of course it would work with other names too.

You can use any name instead of self, some people use simply "s", for example.
I prefer code where self is used, though.

If this were a problem for me, I'd write an editor macro and map it to alt-s or
something.

Gerhard
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