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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon May 1 16🔞54 CEST 2006

On 5/1/06, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

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.

I couldn't agree more! (Another thought, occasionally useful,is to consider that surely the number of Python programs yet to be written, and the number of Python programmers who yet have to learn the language, must surely exceed the current count. At least, one would hope so -- if that's not true, we might as well stop now. :-)

Nick, do you have it in you to fix PEP 343? Or at least come up with a draft patch? We can take this off-linel with all the +0's and +1's coming in I'm pretty comfortable with this change now, although we should probably wait until later today to commit.

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