[Python-Dev] Re: method decorators (PEP 318) (original) (raw)

Shane Hathaway shane at zope.com
Mon Mar 29 10:27:47 EST 2004

Greg Ewing wrote:

By the way, I happen to think there are better uses to which the word 'with' could be put, e.g. the suggestion of making

with lock(foo): dosomething() mean something like x = lock(foo) x.enter() try: dosomething() finally: _x.exit()

That would be nice, but here is what I would like it to mean:

def _f(): do_something() lock(foo)(_f)

That would allow the object of the "with" statement to execute the code block once, many times, or not at all.

Shane

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