[Python-Dev] More on contextlib - adding back a contextmanager decorator (original) (raw)

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Mon May 1 15:55:23 CEST 2006

On May 1, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

1. PEP 343, 2.5 alpha 1, 2.5 alpha 2 and the discussions here have no doubt seriously confused the meaning of the term 'context manager' for a lot of people (you can certainly put me down as one such person). Anyone not already confused is likely to become confused if we subtly change the meaning in alpha 3.

Don't forget that the majority of users will never have heard any of
these discussions nor have used 2.5a1 or 2.5a2. Choose the best term
for them, not for the readers of python-dev.

James

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