[Python-Dev] Python FAQ: Why doesn't Python have a "with" statement? (original) (raw)
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In data 15 giugno 2008 alle ore 02:24:43, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> ha scritto:
...and which should not be used in most cases, for the same reason.
All those tutorials that start out with 'from something import *' are doing a lot of harm to the impressionable minds of new programmers, IMO.
OK, but nobody have questioned about removing 'from something import *' just to help noobs... That's because the instruction can be useful in some (hopely limited, but existent) contexts. It's a matter of programmer choises.
Anyway (and dropping my proposal), I think that the FAQ needs to be changed to advice that the 'with' keyword in Python makes a completely different kind of work.
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