On 17/11/19 4:54 am, Ricky Teachey wrote:
I think it'd be at least as confusing as the current situation.
It might be better to keep it as purely a context manager, and
not load it down with any other baggage.
I wouldn't try to make it remember the current directory. Like
a generator expression, the expectation is that it would be
used while it's still fresh.
I seem to remember we had such a context manager for a brief
time after the with-statement was invented, until someone had
the bright idea to make open() do double duty.
The main source of confusion I foresee if we re-introduce it,
is that people are now used to doing 'with open()...', so we
either make open() no longer a context manager and break
existing code, or have two ways to do it, with the one that is
currently the most widely used one having a subtle trap hidden
in it.
--
Greg
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