Code block literals

[Alex Martelli]

Andrew Dalke wrote:
  ...[quoting me indirectly]...
>> > If Python's syntax defined
>> > other forms of suites, e.g. hypothetically:
>> >
>> > with <object>:
>> >     <suite>
>> >
>> > meaning to call the object (or some given method[s] in it, whatever)
>> > with the suite as its argument, it would be just as explicit as, e.g.:
>> >
>> > for <name> in <object>:
>> >     <suite>
> 
> A reasonable point.  However, inside the 'with' statement it's hard
> to know if
> 
>    print x

Sorry, I was NOT using 'with' in a Pascal/Basic sense, but rather
to mean, and I quote: "meaning to call ... with the suite" (others
have proposed 'using' etc for this construct in python-dev).  I
was using 'with' only because so many macros quoted on the xposted
thread appear to start with "WITH-..." ...!-)


Alex