[Python-Dev] Proposed resolutions for open PEP 343 issues (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 11:35:56 CEST 2005

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Here's another argument against automatically decorating context.

What if I want to have a class with a context method that returns a custom context manager that doesn't involve applying @contextmanager to a generator? While technically this is possible with your proposal (since such a method wouldn't be a generator), it's exceedingly subtle for the human reader. I'd much rather see the @contextmanager decorator to emphasize the difference.

Being able to easily pull a native context manager out and turn it into an independent context manager just by changing its name is also a big plus. For that matter, consider a class that had a "normal" context manager (its context slot), and an alternative context manager (defined as a separate method). The fact that one had the contextmanager decorator and the other one didn't would be rather confusing.

So you've convinced me that auto-decoration is not the right thing to do. Those that really don't like decorating a slot can always write it as:

def UndecoratedSlot(object):

   @contextmanager
   def native_context(self):
       print "Entering native context"
       yield
       print "Exiting native context cleanly"

   __context__ = native_context

Or:

def UndecoratedSlot(object):

   def __context__(self):
       return self.native_context()

   @contextmanager
   def native_context(self):
       print "Entering native context"
       yield
       print "Exiting native context cleanly"

However, I'm still concerned about the fact that the following class has a context manager that doesn't actually work:

class Broken(object): def context(self): print "This never gets executed" yield print "Neither does this"

So how about if type_new simply raises a TypeError if it finds a generator-iterator function in the context slot?

Regards, Nick.

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