> On 30 Mar 2023, at 08:10, Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengf...@posteo.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering why decorator-based context managers are not reentrant or 
> even reusable.

Do you mean this use of reentrant? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrancy_(computing)


> 
> They could be made reusable by initializing the generator in __enter__() 
> instead of __init__(). They could be made reentrant by storing generatos in a 
> stack. A similar thing has been implemented for redirect_stdout in 
> 8e113b418df7d0c8480e1e2de29a385e1f31b15b.
> 
> I understand that not all generator-based context managers can be reentrant 
> by their nature. But currently it is impossible to make them reentrant, which 
> IMHO is an unnecessary restriction.
> 
> I could find very little discussion on this. Are there any strong reasons why 
> it was implemented this way or should I create a pull request to change it?
> 
> (My specific use case is a TUI application where I want to make sure that the 
> terminal is restored to a usable state on exit, but also need to step in and 
> out of the TUI on SIGTSTP/SIGCONT.)
> 
> thanks,
> tobias
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html#single-use-reusable-and-reentrant-context-managers
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