"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "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).
Another example that comes to mind is "with" statement versus a macro system that allowed one to define custom statements based on try...finally. contextlib.contextmanager implements an even more specific subset of this functionality. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
