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

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Mon Jul 4 08:34:51 CEST 2005

[Aahz]

How about "decimal.Context() objects are managed resources" or "...have guarded scopes"? (I'm not terribly wild about either, but they are fairly simple and direct.)

See my other posts which bag on both "managed resources" and "guarded". The part about scopes is less clear -- there is certainly a span of action but the scope concept is more closely aligned with namespaces (and we're not creating a new namespace here).

For extra credit, any proposed solution ought to also deal with the two kinds of enter methods. One is expected to be used with "as" and the other is not. Neither of the above wordings begin to suggest whether decimal.Context.enter will return a useful value (the PEP has examples of each).

Raymond

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