Aaron Bentley wrote: > Jeroen Vermeulen wrote: >> Aaron Bentley wrote: > >>> ISTM that try/finally is just syntactic sugar for try/except+raise/else, >>> and that context managers handle the latter just fine. >> But to my taste not very transparently, is my point. > > On the other hand, context managers can make the right way to do it also > the lazy way to do it.
FWIW, I am at least slightly responsible for the with statement getting in to Python 2.5, and this point was the main reason I thought it was a good idea: it gave a way to make the lazy way of doing things and the right way of doing them more like each other. Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
