Raymond Hettinger wrote: > There is no value in expanding a concept to the point of being > meaningless (i.e. meaning whatever you want it to or nothing at all). > Instead, we need a phrase that expresses the essence of the following: > > > abc = EXPR > exc = (None, None, None) > VAR = abc.__enter__() > try: > try: > BLOCK > except: > exc = sys.exc_info() > raise > finally: > abc.__exit__(*exc) > > There is nothing in that that says resource managed. The pre/post steps > could do almost anything from logging, to changing environments, to > translating, launching/joining unrelated threads, to communicating with > other processes, etc.
The name 'abc' is the manager object, so find a better term to replace 'abc'. 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
