[Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (was r45544 - peps/trunk/pep-0343.txt) (original) (raw)
A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Wed Apr 19 16:21:05 CEST 2006
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:10:55PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
When Phillip went through to make the terminology consistent he actually swapped the meanings of "context" (which meant 'has a context method' in the original PEP) and "context manager" (which meant 'has enter and exit methods and a context method that returns self' in the original PEP).
Yes, that was exactly what he set out to do. I noted that the terms "context" and "context manager" seemed to be exactly reversed from what's intuitive, and from how the user-facing documentation is written; the post at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063842.html> contains my argument. GvR approved, and Phillip went ahead and made the change.
--amk
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