On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:00:43AM -0400, Yury Selivanov wrote: >> "Context" is an established term for what PEP 550 tries to accomplish. >> It's used in multiple languages and runtimes, and while researching >> this topic I didn't see anybody confused with the concept on >> StackOverflow/etc. > > For me a context is a "single thing" that is usually used to thread state > through functions. > > I guess I'd call "environment" what you call "context".
"environment" is also an overloaded term, and when I hear it I usually think about os.getenv(). Yury _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
