[Python-Dev] More on contextlib - adding back a contextmanager decorator (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon May 1 12:29:12 CEST 2006
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Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 08:08 PM 4/30/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
If you object against the extra typing, we'll first laugh at you (proposals that only shave a few characters of a common idiom aren't all that popular in these parts), and then suggest that you can spell foo.somemethod() as foo(). Okay, you've moved me to at least +0 for dropping context. I have only one object myself that has a non-self context, and it doesn't have a call, so none of my code breaks beyond the need to add parentheses in a few places. ;)
At least +0 here, too. I've just been so deep in this lately that it is taking a while to wind my thinking back a year or so. Still, far better to be having this discussion now than in 6 months time :)
It sure has been a long and winding road back to Guido's original version of PEP 343, though!
As for decimal contexts, I'm thinking maybe we should have a decimal.using(ctx=None, **kw) function, where ctx defaults to the current decimal context, and the keyword arguments are used to make a modified copy, seems like a reasonable best way to implement the behavior that context was added for. And then all of the existing special machinery can go away and be replaced with a single @contextfactory.
'localcontext' would probably work as at least an interim name for such a function.
with decimal.localcontext() as ctx: # use the new context here
This is really an all-round improvement over the current SVN approach, where the fact that a new decimal context object is being created by the existing decimal context object is thoroughly implicit and unobvious.
(I think we should stick with @contextfactory as the decorator name, btw, even if we go back to calling enter/exit things context managers.)
Agreed. And that decorator will still be useful for defining methods as well as functions.
Cheers, Nick.
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