[Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (wasr45544-peps/trunk/pep-0343.txt)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Apr 23 20:17:01 CEST 2006


"Just van Rossum" <just at letterror.com> wrote in message 
news:r01050400-1039-732D0EC9D2CB11DAABF6001124365170@[10.0.0.24]...
>> +1 for context maker.
>Or maybe "context factory"?

Yes, I thought of that too.  Latin 'facere' == 'to make'.  I might even put 
a sentence in the doc explaining that a context maker is a context factory, 
in the CS sense of the term, just as generator functions are generator 
factories.

Terry Jan Reedy









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