Aahz wrote: > Longer answer: the way in Python to achieve the full power of Ruby > blocks is to write a function.
You are most likely right... there is probably no need to introduce ruby-like blocks to python where iteration comes naturally with list comprehensions and generators. But for the simple case of entering a block of code as one does with @contextmanager I suppose it would be nice to make a generator with a single yield statement a contextmanager by default such that: >>> def g(): ... print "a" ... yield ... print "b" ... >>> with g(): ... print "c" ... a c b would be equivalent to >>> from __future__ import with_statement >>> from contextlib import contextmanager >>> @contextmanager ... def g(): ... print "a" ... yield ... print "b" ... >>> with g(): ... print "c" ... a c b but then again, I suppose "explicit is better than implicit"... AK -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
