How about simply "with block" or "guarded scope" or something like that?
Michael On 7/3/05, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/michael.walter%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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
