[Python-Dev] Acquire/release functionality (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:44:05 +1300 (NZDT)

holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net>:

I haven't found a way to make assignments optional (in recent experiments). Is this possible with Python's Parser?

It should be possible to do it the same way as expressions/assignments are done now, i.e. parse it as

with_stmt ::= 'with' ['=' ] ':'

and sort it out in the compiler.

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