Nick Coghlan wrote: > (An idea that just occurred to me in writing this email is "managed > context". That's a lot less clumsy, and fits with the context manager > idea.
+1 > Context expressions > In response to a comment Aahz made, I tweaked the language > reference to explicitly refer to the expression in the with statement > as a "context expression". The result of the context expression must > then be a context manager in order for the with statement to operate > correctly. +1 > Dealing with decimal.ContextManager > (decimal.ManagedContext would definitely look better. . .) +1 > Dealing with contextlib.contextmanager > As recently suggested (by Terry, IIRC), I renamed this to > contextlib.contextfactory, as the decorator creates a factory > function for producing with statement context objects. +1 > Dealing with contextlib.GeneratorContextManager > I renamed this to contextlib.GeneratorContext. The fact that it's > in the contextlib module provides sufficient context to indicate that > this is a with statement context object, so I could avoid the clumsy > naming that was needed in the decimal module. Might still be better to name this as contextlib.ManagedGeneratorContext (or contextlib.GeneratorManagedContext, but I think the former works better). This has been a long, tiring set of threads, but I think the end result is an improvement (particularly contextlib.contextfactory). Tim Delaney _______________________________________________ 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
