On Wednesday 06 July 2005 19:47, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > These names should be changed to __beginwith__ and __endwith__. The > current names are too vague, not obviously paired with each other, not > obviously tied to the with-statement, and provide no hint about what > calls them. Remember, the methods will appear among a slew of other > methods that have nothing to do with with-statements. There will be no > surrounding contextual clue as to what these methods are for.
I don't really like this; what's to say there won't be some other client of the context protocol? Should __iter__ have been __iterfor__? (I don't think so.) If we're worried about name clashes (and in __*__ space, no less!), then perhaps it makes sense to do something like __context__ (similar to __iter__), and use the __enter__ and __exit__ on the result of that method. I'm not convinced there's a need to worry about clashes in the __*__ namespace, but I can see how it might be nice to provide an __context__ method similar to __iter__. But I don't find it compelling, so... let's have __enter__ and __exit__, and be done. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
