[Python-Dev] With context, please

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:05 AM 4/22/2006 -0700, Aahz wrote:
>I've been following the with/context discussion, not that closely, but
>reading all the posts.  I also have to write docs on this for Python for
>Dummies, which I think is going to be the first book out after 2.5.  So
>far, my take is that I want the block of code to be executed in a
>context.  I'm probably going to use that terminology no matter what gets
>decided here -- I think it's the only sensible way to describe it for
>newcomers.  Aside from that, I don't care all that much.
>
>(Actually, we just turned in the first draft, and I haven't talked about
>context managers at all -- what I said was that EXPR returns a context.)

And what did you say that __context__ returns?