Nick Coghlan wrote: > On the other hand 'enter and exit' rolls off the tongue > significantly better than 'enter and leave'
My only concern is enter and exit may be too general. They are frequently used in other places, although __enter__ and __exit__ are less common, so maybe it's a non issue. The terms __begin__ and __end__, are nearly as general, but they stress better that there are three parts, a beginning, middle and ending. > All of which just leads me to the conclusion that English is a screwy > language, and I already knew that ;) I nowe that tue, but fixxing it issint backward compattibbal. ;-) > Anyway, I stuck with 'exit' for this - I prefer slightly awkard > phrasing in the explanation to awkwardness in the pairing of the names. After reading Michael Hudsun's post: >>I used a with statement to establish and dis-establish an error >>handler -- would you call that a resource? He has a good point, maybe we are confusing what a with-block does, with how it can be used. So something along the lines of ... """ With-Mangager Blocks A With-Manager Block is used to combine related initiation and finalization routines from a Manager object with a local block of code. Python will attempt to execute the finalization routine even if an error occurs which makes With-Manager Blocks useful for writing algorithms which require dependable closure or release of an acquired resource after the code block is executed. etc... """ That's a nice start on the docs Nick. Cheers, Ron _______________________________________________ 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
