[Python-Dev] More on contextlib - adding back a contextmanagerdecorator

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Things should be as simple as possible but no simpler. It's pretty
> clear to me that dropping __context__ approaches this ideal. I'm sorry
> I didn't push back harder when __context__ was first proposed -- in
> retrospect, the first 5 months of PEP 343's life, before __context__
> (or __with__, as it was originally called) was invented, were by far
> its happiest times.

I've posted two versions of the "with" page from the language reference:

    http://pyref.infogami.com/with (current)
    http://pyref.infogami.com/with-alt (simplified)

(the original is a slightly tweaked version of the current development docs)

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