Python Feature Request: Add the "using" keyword which works like "with" in Visual Basic

[Georg Brandl]

BJörn Lindqvist schrieb:
> On 4/14/07, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 14 Apr 2007 07:24:32 -0700, jamadagni <samjnaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > You already can emulate the using statement like this:
>> >
>> > You can emulate only assignments like this. How would you emulate
>> > function calls, like the ones in my example?
>>
>> You can't, of course. But using the with statement:
>>
>> using self.q:
>>     .doit()
>>
>> becomes:
>>
>> with self.quit as q:
>>     q.doit()
> 
> Er.. I guess there are some details you need to work out for that. But
> in principle, it works fine.

No, it does not. The "q" here is *not* assigned to self.quit, but to the
result of self.quit.__enter__().

Georg


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