Nick Coghlan added the comment: Allowing a context manager to skip the statement body isn't a new proposal, and I previously argued your side. However, with multiple context managers, there is no invisible flow control. Two context managers are locally visible, which means the outer one completely encloses the inner one and can suppress exceptions it throws. Guido explicitly made the decision to require two managers at the point of use to achieve that behaviour when I proposed making the change - he doesn't care about allowing a single context manager to provide that functionality.
For the other question, how does your version of nested keep people from doing "nested(open(fname) for name in names)"? That was the core problem with that style of API: it made it far too easy to introduce a latent defect when combined with file like objects that eagerly acquire their resource. It wasn't that it couldn't be used correctly, but that the natural and obvious way of combining it with open() is silently wrong. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18677> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
