[Python-Dev] Iterator version of contextlib.nested

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 22:41:11 CEST 2009


2009/6/15 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
>> P.S.  If you switch to PendingDeprecationWarning, the example
>> in the docs should probably be switched to show the one valid
>> use case (passing in a prepackaged nest of context managers).
>
> It could even suggest that it only be used for this, since it may disappear,
> and that other uses should use the new syntax.  That would give people the
> best chance of writing future-proof code when they can.

And if the warning is *not* changed to a PendingDeprecationWarning,
the documentation could also note the necessary warnings call needed
to let the example code run warning-free.

Paul.


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