On Thu, Apr 21, 2005, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Perhaps the most important lesson we've learned in this thread is that > the 'with' keyword proposed in PEP 310 is redundant -- the syntax > could just be > > [VAR '=']* EXPR ':' > BODY > > IOW the regular assignment / expression statement gets an optional > colon-plus-suite at the end.
Yes, it could. The question then becomes whether it should. Because it's easy to indent Python code when you're not using a block (consider function calls with lots of args), my opinion is that like the "optional" colon after ``for`` and ``if``, the resource block *should* have a keyword. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR _______________________________________________ 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
