[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax

[Michael Hudson]

Brett Cannon <bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> Now if ``__exit__()`` would be executed regardless of exceptions this
> would probably eliminate a decent chunk of code that uses ``finally:``
> such as::

That was the major point of the proposal.  Holger has a Friendly
Competing Proposal that I think allows the "monitor" (i.e. the thing
with the __enter__ and __exit__ methods) to distinguish between normal
and exceptional return.  I thought that was a bit overcomplicated.

Cheers,
M.

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