At 08:08 PM 4/30/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >If you object against the extra typing, we'll first laugh at you >(proposals that *only* shave a few characters of a common idiom aren't >all that popular in these parts), and then suggest that you can spell >foo.some_method() as foo().
Okay, you've moved me to at least +0 for dropping __context__. I have only one object myself that has a non-self __context__, and it doesn't have a __call__, so none of my code breaks beyond the need to add parentheses in a few places. ;) As for decimal contexts, I'm thinking maybe we should have a decimal.using(ctx=None, **kw) function, where ctx defaults to the current decimal context, and the keyword arguments are used to make a modified copy, seems like a reasonable best way to implement the behavior that __context__ was added for. And then all of the existing special machinery can go away and be replaced with a single @contextfactory. (I think we should stick with @contextfactory as the decorator name, btw, even if we go back to calling __enter__/__exit__ things context managers.) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com