[Greg Ewing]
> My current thought is that it should look like this:
>
> with_file(filename) as f:
> do_something_with(f)
>
> The success of this hinges on how many use cases can
> be arranged so that the word 'as' makes sense in that
> position.
[...]
> This way, the syntax is just
>
> expr ['as' assignment_target] ':' suite
>
> and the expr is evaluated quite normally.
Perhaps it could be even simpler:
[assignment_target '=']* expr ':' suite
This would just be an extension of the regular assignment statement.
(More in a longer post I'm composing off-line while picking cherries
off the thread.)
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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