"Jeff Schwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip discussion of 'with' statements]
| Yes, this seems to be the Python way: For each popular feature of some | other language, create a less flexible Python feature that achieves the | same effect in the most common cases (e.g. lambda to imitate function | literals, or recursive assignment to allow x = y = z). This is a rather acute observation. Another example is generators versus full coroutines (or continuations). Guido is content to capture 80% of the practical use cases of a feature. He never intended Python to be a 100% replace-everything language. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
