On 20 Okt, 16:00, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote: > What's your problem with the with ???
No problem whatsoever, but I believe I wrote this utility function before the keyword was available, and it might be good to support older Python versions. > But anyway : explicitely releasing resources such as files, network > connections etc is of course the RightThing(tm), except eventually in > one-shot throwaway scripts. > > > However, when providing a patch for a > > high-profile opensource Python project I was scolded for going to such > > lengths, as the prescribed style was to just open files and let them > > be closed implicitly. > > Err... Care to name the project ? I hope it's not one I ever advertized :( I'm not going to name the project, but it is incidentally used by the Python project itself :) Arve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
