[Python-Dev] PEP 377 - allow enter() methods to skip the statement body (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Mar 16 23:27:52 CET 2009
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Hell, I largely wrote PEP 377 to try to get out of having to document these semantic problems with the with statement - if I'm having trouble getting python-dev to grasp the problem, what hope do other users of Python have?
Hell, if you can't come up with a real use case, why bother? :-) I figured I'd try for a solution that didn't offend my sense of aesthetics before caving in and working out how to better document the limitations of the status quo :) Perhaps you could address my worry about introducing an obscure BaseException subclass that will forever add to the weight of the list of built-in exceptions in all documentation? Since this is really just a matter of the aesthetics of the underlying design from my point of view rather than solving a real world problem, I don't have a good answer for you. In the absence of reports of actual problems caused by this limitation, should I consider the PEP rejected?
Yes -- sorry for your wasted efforts.
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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