[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3 (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sat Aug 19 14:57:16 EDT 2017

On 08/19/2017 01:40 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:33:27 -0400 Yury Selivanov wrote:

There are a few open questions left, namely the terminology and design of ContextKey API. On the former topic, I'm quite happy with the latest version: Execution Context, Logical Context, and Context Key. I don't really like it. "Logical Context" is vague (there are lots of things called "context" in other libraries, so a bit of specificity would help avoid confusion), and it's not clear what is "logical" about it anyway. "Local Context" actually seemed better to me (as it reminded of threading.local() or the general notion of thread-local storage).

I am also not seeing the link between "logical" and "this local layer of environmental changes that won't be seen by those who called me".

Maybe ContextLayer? Or marry the two and call it LocalContextLayer.

-- Ethan

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