[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)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Apr 22 08:36:57 CEST 2006

At 01:34 PM 4/22/2006 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Then why didn't you speak up when the discussion was summarised in PEP 343 for Guido's approval? I said it explicitly: ... That may have been what you personally thought, but it's not what the PEP said.

By the way, Greg Ewing coined the term "context manager", combining my proposals of "resource manager" and "context listener":

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-July/054607.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-July/054628.html

And from this email, it's clear that other people in the discussion interpreted this term to refer to "thing given to the 'with' statement":

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-July/054615.html

However, you seemed to want to call this a "context", even then:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-July/054656.html

So, if anything is clear from all this, it's that nothing has ever been particularly clear in all this. :)

Or more precisely, I think everybody has been perfectly clear, we just haven't really gotten on the same page about which words mean what. ;)

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