[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Task-local variables (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Oct 21 14:41:47 CEST 2005

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

On 10/20/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 08:57 AM 10/20/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Whoa, folks! Can I ask the gentlemen to curb their enthusiasm? > >PEP 343 is still (back) on the drawing table, PEP 342 has barely been >implemented (did it survive the AST-branch merge?), and already you >are talking about adding more stuff. Please put on the brakes!

Sorry. I thought that 343 was just getting a minor tune-up. Maybe, but the issues on the table are naming issues -- is with the right name, or should it be context? Should the decorator be applied implicitly? Should the decorator be called @context or @contextmanager? In the months since the discussion and approval (and implementation; Michael Hudson actually had a PEP 343 patch out there), Which he described previously as "a hack"

Err, that was the code I used for my talk at EuroPython. That really was a hack. The code on SF is much better.

and apparently didn't feel comfortable checking in.

Well, I was kind of hoping for a review, or positive comment on the tracker, or something (Phillip posted half a review here a couple of weeks ago, but I've been stupidly stupidly busy since then).

At least some of it will have to be redone, (a) for the AST code,

Indeed. Not much, I hope, the compiler changes were fairly simple.

and (b) for the revised PEP.

Which I still haven't digested :-/

Cheers, mwh

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