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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 11:23:58 CEST 2005

Greg Ewing wrote:

Jason Orendorff wrote:

A contextmanager is a function that returns a new context manager. Okay, that last bit is weird. If the name of the decorator is to be 'contextmanager', it really needs to say something like The contextmanager decorator turns a generator into a function that returns a context manager. So maybe the decorator should be called 'contextmanagergenerator'. Or perhaps not, since that's getting rather too much of an eyeful to parse...

Strictly speaking this fits in with the existing confusion of "generator factory" and "generator":

Py> def g(): ... yield None ... Py> type(g) <type 'function'> Py> type(g()) <type 'generator'>

Most people would call "g" a generator, even though its really just a factory function that returns generator objects.

So technically, the "contextmanager" decorator turns a generator factory function into a context manager factory function.

But its easier to simply say that the decorator turns a generator into a context manager, even if that's technically incorrect.

Cheers, Nick.

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