Andrew Barnert wrote:

> The advantage of your ExitMap over helper (besides being shorter, and
> conceptually simpler) is that it’s never misleading.
>
[snip]

Thank you for this, particular your example (snipped). I agree. But maybe
I'm biased.


> It still seems like overkill for the case of “how do I get parens
> somewhere around a bunch of open calls so I can write a multiline with
> statement”, and I’m not sure how often it would be useful in other cases.
>

It depends, I think, on how often it's used.


> But it seems like it’s at least worth building for your personal toolbox
> and keeping track of how often it comes up (and how much nicer it makes
> things), and maybe publishing it to PyPI or submitting it to contextlib2 so
> more people will do the same.
>

A personal toolbox is, well, a personal matter. I'm all in favour of
sharing. But I'd rather someone else, more motivated, would take on putting
it up onto PyPI.

I hope we're mostly all agreed, anyway, that we've given a satisfactory
answer to the Original Poster's query.
-- 
Jonathan
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