[Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (was r45544 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (was r45544 - peps/trunk/pep-0343.txt)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Apr 22 03:46:36 CEST 2006

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

Does this detail matter to users of the Decimal module, though? Those users may well be thinking using the term 'context'.

Seems to me the most straightforward term should be applied to the object that users are most likely to know about and use. The term "context" is familiar and understandable, whereas "context manager" isn't.

I've kind of lost track of why we're having two separate objects, anyway. Is it really necessary?

As far as I remember, the original 'with' statement proposal was very simple and quite straightforward to explain and understand. Somewhere along the way it seems to have mutated into a monster that I can't keep in my brain any more. This can't be a good thing.

-- Greg

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