[Python-Dev] Scope, not context? (was Re: PEP 550 v3 naming) (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Aug 24 17:06:09 EDT 2017

On Aug 24, 2017, at 16:01, francismb <francismb at email.de> wrote:

On 08/24/2017 03:52 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

I worry that that's going to lead more people astray thinking this has something to do with contextlib, which it really doesn't (it's much more closely related to threading.local()). If it's hard to find a name due collision with related meanings or already taken buckets then I would suggest just inventing a new word. An artificial one. What do you thing?

I propose RaymondLuxuryYach_t, but we’ll have to pronounce it ThroatwobblerMangrove.

import-dinsdale-ly y’rs, -Barry

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