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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon May 1 20:00:49 CEST 2006

On Tue, May 02, 2006, Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

the context expression in the with statement produces a context manager with enter and exit methods which set up and tear down a managed context for the body of the with statement. This is very similar to your later suggestion of context guard and guarded context. Currently I think I still prefer the term "guard", since it does a better job of conjuring up the same sort of idea as a try-finally.

"Guard" really doesn't work for me. It seems clear (especially in light of Fredrik's docs) that "wrapper" comes much closer to what's going on.

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