[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343

[Terry Reedy]

"Michael Hudson" <mwh at python.net> wrote in message 
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> Thing is, there may be no resource; in my talk at EuroPython:
>
>    http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/recexc.pdf
>
> I used a with statement to establish and dis-establish an error
> handler -- would you call that a resource?

Yes -- now that you suggested it, given what you had on your slides ;-)

An emergency backup resource is different from a normal production resource 
(opened file for instance), but I can still see it as a resource.

Terry J. Reedy