At 08:13 PM 3/24/2006 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >I think that the code you added: > >+ except: >+ if sys.exc_info()[1] is not value: >+ raise > >could use a comment explaining what's going on;
Done. > the difference between >returning None and re-raising the exception is really quite subtle >here, and only ever matters if something else besides the >with-statement framework is calling __exit__. (I would add this >distinction to the PEP too.) Also done. >I'd like to see some discussion of your proposed change to .pth file >processing; this could cause some surprises and will slow down all >Python's start-up time due to the necessity to list every directory on >sys.path. This is IMO a bad thing; there must be nothing to keep >people from writing tiny scripts in Python, and slow startup time is >an inhibitor there. Okay, I'll cross that off then. Setuptools will just have to keep using its "install a special site.py on PYTHONPATH" trick to support PYTHONPATH installs. > (If you don't believe this could be a problem, try >it with a long path containing several directories on NFS. This is the >standard setup of Google developer workstations, and it gives one a >different outlook on life.) Ouch. All that computing power and you can't even copy files to your own machines? Tsk, tsk. ;) _______________________________________________ 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
