[Python-Dev] Re: method decorators (PEP 318) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 28 22:15:23 EST 2004

Casey Duncan <casey at zope.com>:

For some reason I thought there was a philosophical objection to 'with' in Python. Must have been an urban myth I guess.

I think it's considered to have quite a low priority, since it wouldn't buy you much. Binding a nice short temporary name to the with-ed object is almost as concise and arguably clearer.

By the way, I happen to think there are better uses to which the word 'with' could be put, e.g. the suggestion of making

with lock(foo): do_something()

mean something like

_x = lock(foo) _x.enter() try: do_something() finally: _x.__exit()

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