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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sun Jul 3 19:25:19 CEST 2005

Just because not all cars are used as vehicles, does that mean that cars are not vehicles?

There may be cases where the object being managed is not a resource per-se, but that doesn't mean that the mechanism is misnamed as a 'resource manager'; it's just the most common use case that any of us have managed to think of (as of yet).

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes: > At 05:41 PM 6/30/2005 -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >>With 343 accepted, we can now add enter() and exit() methods to >>objects. >> >>What term should describe those objects in the documentation? > > Resource managers. Thing is, there may be no resource; in my talk at EuroPython: http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/recexc.pdf I used a with statement to establish and dis-establish an error handler -- would you call that a resource?

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