Mark Dickinson added the comment: > With that fixed, I am inclined to close this.
Agreed. I'll try to find some time for a PEP at some point in the next few weeks. > I had thought of a set-mode function (method), but anticipate objection > to such modal action-at-distance behavior. Yes; I'm not a big fan of global state[*] either in general, but there aren't many other good options: specifying the mode to each operation individually would be painful and prevent natural use of infix operators, generally making code more unreadable. There *would* need to be some kind of set-mode function (or perhaps writable sys module attribute) as you suggest, but the context manager could be promoted as the recommended way to change the state in a manner that's reasonably safe and explicit. [*] We'd want it to be thread-local rather than global, of course. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18570> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
