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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Jul 11 16:01:08 CEST 2005 

>> Ummm...  What's a "context manager"?

Michael> Something that goes 

Michael> with ... as var:
Michael>      ^ here

Michael> If you have a better name, feel free to suggest it, but please
Michael> catch up on python-dev first (it's been discussed to
Michael> unconsciousness, if not quite death, in the last week or so).

After seeing so many messages about "with" statements my eyes began to glaze over, so I stopped following that thread. Then I saw mention of "context manager" with no reference to any PEPs or to the with statement to provide context. None of the context-providing messages seemed to have been indexed by Google when I checked, so searching for "Python context manager" failed to return anything useful. Hence the post.

BTW, "context manager" seems fine to me in that context...

Skip

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