> What I was wondering > was whether a similar construct was considered for a while loop or even an > if clause, because then the above could be written like this: > > if open(filename, 'rb') as f: > while f.read(1000) as buf: > # do something with 'buf' >
see here, and the associated bug tracker item. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0379/ There is also a thread on python-ideas (sorry no links handy) that deals with this issue, and the difference between the use of 'as' and assignment. This is the PEP that describes the 'with' statement and it goes into the choice of the 'as' keyword. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/ (from PEP 343) .. So now the final hurdle was that the PEP 310 syntax: with VAR = EXPR: BLOCK1 would be deceptive, since VAR does *not* receive the value of EXPR. Borrowing from PEP 340, it was an easy step to: with EXPR as VAR: BLOCK1 Cheers, Jervis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
