[Python-Dev] Possible context managers in stdlib (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Jul 8 23:02:33 CEST 2005

At 10:24 PM 7/8/2005 +0200, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:

with sys.trace

Note that it's currently not possible to inspect the trace/profile hooks from Python code, only from C, so that might be, um, interesting to implement.

* pprint: with pprint.printer (used for print)

Interesting; I'm not sure if I like it.

* os: with os.currentdirectory

What does this do? Oh, I get it. The name's not very obvious. I would've expected a more imperative name, something like 'with os.setcwd()' or 'with os.pushdir()'.

with os.modifiedenv with os.umask/uid/gid etc.

Yeah, again I would expect more verbish names, but these are at least easier to grasp than current_directory was.

* curses: with curses.wrapper with logging.Logger * tty: with tty.raw with tty.cbreak * cgitb: with cgitb.enabled

What do these do?

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