New submission from Edward Welbourne <e...@chaos.org.uk>: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html#writing-context-managers penultimate item in "A high-level explanation": <quote> If BLOCK raises an exception, the __exit__(type, value, traceback)() is called </quote> has extra () after the argument list - this appears to say that __exit__ should return a callable, that shall be called with no parameters. Fortunately, later example code reveals that __exit__ simply returns true or false.
http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html#the-contextlib-module after the first code block: <quote> The contextlib module also has a nested(mgr1, mgr2, ...)() function </quote> again, stray () after parameter list. After the next short code snippet: <quote> Finally, the closing(object)() function returns ... </quote> ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 99336 nosy: eddy, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: Stray parentheses() in context manager "what's new" doc versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7926> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
