alternative to with statement?

[Prasad, Ramit]

Craig Yoshioka wrote:
>I see that there was previously a PEP to allow the with statement to skip the enclosing block... this was shot down, and I'm trying to think of the most elegant alternative. [..]

>I would have really liked:
>with cachingcontext(x):
>    # create cached resources here
># return cached resources

Is this a common pattern? I thought the point of the context manager 
was to remove create and close the resources (like with file opening).
Seems slightly odd to use just for creation...but maybe only because
I have never used it like that.


Ramit


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