Eric Sumner wrote:
> I realize that I made an assumption that may not be valid;
> namely, that a new scope is generated by the 'with' statement.
The with statement uses the existing scope - its just a way of factoring out
try/finally boilerplate code. No more, and, in fact, fractionally less (the
'less' being the fact that just like any other Python function, you only get
to supply one value to be bound to a name in the invoking scope).
Trying to link this with the function definition pipelining provided by
decorators seems like a bit of a stretch. It certainly isn't a superset of the
decorator functionality - if you want a statement that manipulates the
namespace it contains, that's what class statements are for :)
Cheers,
Nick.
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