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

Michael Walter michael.walter at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 20:14:24 CEST 2005

How about simply "with block" or "guarded scope" or something like that?

Michael

On 7/3/05, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> On the other hand 'enter and exit' rolls off the tongue > significantly better than 'enter and leave' My only concern is enter and exit may be too general. They are frequently used in other places, although enter and exit are less common, so maybe it's a non issue. The terms begin and end, are nearly as general, but they stress better that there are three parts, a beginning, middle and ending.

> All of which just leads me to the conclusion that English is a screwy > language, and I already knew that ;) I nowe that tue, but fixxing it issint backward compattibbal. ;-) > Anyway, I stuck with 'exit' for this - I prefer slightly awkard > phrasing in the explanation to awkwardness in the pairing of the names. After reading Michael Hudsun's post: >>I used a with statement to establish and dis-establish an error >>handler -- would you call that a resource? He has a good point, maybe we are confusing what a with-block does, with how it can be used. So something along the lines of ... """ With-Mangager Blocks A With-Manager Block is used to combine related initiation and finalization routines from a Manager object with a local block of code. Python will attempt to execute the finalization routine even if an error occurs which makes With-Manager Blocks useful for writing algorithms which require dependable closure or release of an acquired resource after the code block is executed. etc... """ That's a nice start on the docs Nick. Cheers, Ron

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