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

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 20:21:03 EDT 2017

The way we came to "logical context" was via "logical thread (of control)", which is distinct from OS thread. But I think we might need to search for another term...

On Aug 19, 2017 11:56 AM, "Ethan Furman" <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

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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