[Python-Dev] Coding practice for context managers (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon Oct 21 13:11:57 CEST 2013

On 21 October 2013 11:59, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:49:24 -0700, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 10/20/2013 07:42 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > In short, I recommend that efforts be directed at improving help() rather than limiting introspection by way of less clean coding practices.

+1 I'm also +1 on improving help instead of using wrapper classes.

Agreed. A wrapper function whose purpose is solely to tidy up help seems like a bad idea in general.

I'm somewhat more sympathetic to Nick's point that the name the user types should be all-lowercase and a class would be mixed case, but on that I think it's actually the naming convention that should change (name classes/functions based on usage, not implementation). The rule to me is that changing the underlying implementation shouldn't affect the user interface.

Paul

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