On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:00:21PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> And the parenthetical comment was completely backwards and should have read:
>
> (This means that all context managers are contexts, but not all contexts
> are
> context managers).
>
> The reason for recommending that context managers should be contexts is
> similar to the reason that iterators should be iterables - so that doing
> the __context__() call manually will still give you something that can be
> used in a with statement.
So the intention is to enable something like:
ctx = lock.__context__()
with ctx:
...
Which works as long as people don't try to use the context in two
nested 'with' statements. Fair enough. I don't think I'll suggest
doing this in the "What's New", though. :)
--amk
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