[Python-Dev] 'With' context documentation draft (was Re: Terminology for PEP 343 (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 15:04:32 CEST 2005

On 7/6/05, Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> wrote:

Paul Moore writes: > I also like the fact that it offers a neat 1-word name for the > generator decorator, "@context".

Well, ok... does anyone else agree? I too saw this and thought "neat! a simple one-word name!". But then I started worrying that it's not defining the context, but rather the context manager. While "context manager" is a term I could easily imagine associating only with 'with' statements, "context" is too general a term... even after Python supports 'with' statements I will continue to use "context" to mean lots of different things (eg: decimal.context).

Actually, you're starting to persuade me... Although I generally prefer decorator names which are single words. Along with the at-sign, underscores make the whole thing look a little too "punctuation-heavy" for me (and don't suggest camel case, please!).

Paul.

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