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

Ron Adam rrr at ronadam.com
Sat Jul 16 00:09:24 CEST 2005

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 7/15/05, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote: [several new syntax proposals]

Please stop proposing new syntax. The PEP was accepted after quite enough back-and-forth; there's no point opening this up yet again.

My apologies Guido.

Subtracting the inappropriate syntax suggestions leaves the following hopefully on-topic documentation suggestions.

It may be good to have a stronger association to "try" in the documentation by:

 1. Suggesting to the programmer that in many situations a with can

be thought of as 'try with'.

 2. Reminding or clarify that a with will handle the object or

context cleanup, but the programmer may still need to catch exceptions that are generated within the block with a "try-except" at some point.

 3. The "with" documentation could possibly be grouped with or after

the "try" documentation as it may be easier to understand in that context.

Regards, Ron

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