Just because not all cars are used as vehicles, does that mean that cars are not vehicles?
There may be cases where the object being managed is not a resource per-se, but that doesn't mean that the mechanism is misnamed as a 'resource manager'; it's just the most common use case that any of us have managed to think of (as of yet). - Josiah Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 05:41 PM 6/30/2005 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >>With 343 accepted, we can now add __enter__() and __exit__() methods to > >>objects. > >> > >>What term should describe those objects in the documentation? > > > > Resource managers. > > Thing is, there may be no resource; in my talk at EuroPython: > > http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/recexc.pdf > > I used a with statement to establish and dis-establish an error > handler -- would you call that a resource? _______________________________________________ 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
