[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343 (original) (raw)

Ron Adam rrr at ronadam.com
Mon Jul 4 09:44:49 CEST 2005

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

There is no value in expanding a concept to the point of being meaningless (i.e. meaning whatever you want it to or nothing at all). Instead, we need a phrase that expresses the essence of the following:

abc = EXPR exc = (None, None, None) VAR = abc.enter() try: try: BLOCK except: exc = sys.excinfo() raise finally: abc.exit(*exc) There is nothing in that that says resource managed. The pre/post steps could do almost anything from logging, to changing environments, to translating, launching/joining unrelated threads, to communicating with other processes, etc.

The name 'abc' is the manager object, so find a better term to replace 'abc'.

Cheers, Ron

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