[Python-Dev] Proposed changes to PEP 343 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 01:31:48 CEST 2005

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

However, requiring a decorator to get a slot to work right looks pretty ugly to me, too.

the whole concept might be perfectly fine on the "this construct corre- sponds to this code" level, but if you immediately end up with things that are not what they seem, and names that don't mean what the say, either the design or the description of it needs work. ("yes, I know you can use this class to manage the context, but it's not really a context manager, because it's that method that's a manager, not the class itself. yes, all the information that belongs to the context are managed by the class, but that doesn't make... oh, shut up and read the PEP")

Heh. OK, my current inclinitation is to make the new paragraph at the end of the "Generator Decorator" section read like this:

  1. Add a paragraph to the end of the "Generator Decorator" section:

    If a generator is used to write a context's with method, then Python's type machinery will automatically take care of applying this decorator. This means that it is just as easy to write a generator-based context manager for a context as it is to write a generator-based iterator for an iterable (see the decimal.Context example below).

And then update the decimal.Context example to remove the @contextmanager decorator.

Cheers, Nick.

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