[Python-Dev] PEP 343 update (with statement context terminology) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 17:02:41 CEST 2006

Paul Moore wrote:

On 4/23/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> wrote:

For those not following along at home, I've now updated PEP 343 to clarify my originally intended meanings for various terms, and to record the fact that we don't currently have a consensus on python-dev that those are the right definitions. Is it OK if I don't read the PEP? I'd rather read the 2.5a2 docs with a fresh mind, not with preconceived ideas based on the PEP. It means the feedback gets delayed a bit, but I assume that's OK as you're planning on including the change in the release anyway.

That's fine - the PEP changes are mainly targeted at clearing things up that were ambiguous in the original PEP. Because they were ambiguous, the 2.5a1 implementation went with interpretation A, the documentation went with interpretation B, and so naturally everything fell apart in a confusing heap when the implementation and documentation met in the middle.

I'm shifting everything to use the same interpretation as the implementation for alpha 2 (although AMK will have to decide what he wants to do with the what's new section, since that currently mixes and matches the two different interpretations).

If people still find it confusing when PEP+implementation+documentation are all using the terminology the same way, then we can look at other possibilities (such as adding a completely new term like 'context definition' for the context objects).

Cheers, Nick.

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