[Python-Dev] PEP 343 update (with statement context terminology)

[Aahz]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 04:48 AM 4/25/2006 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>>Using two names to describe three different things isn't intuitive for 
>>anybody.
> 
> Um, what three things?  I only count two:
> 
> 1. Objects with __context__
> 2. Objects with __enter__ and __exit__
> 
> What's the third thing?

The actual context that's used during the execution of BLOCK.  It does
not exist as a concrete object, but we must be able to refer to it in
documentation.  I called it a "namespace" in my docs, which I now realize
is incorrect, but it's not entirely clear to me how to describe it.
Perhaps "wrapper" will do.
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