More on "with" statement

[Erik Max Francis]

Roman Suzi wrote:

> > That's just plain more efficient.  Four additions and one multiply
> 
> four?

Yes, typo.  Three, obviously.

> The same with "with": it could make name-resolving more efficient
> by allowing searching some namespaces ahead of locals() and
> globals()...

Or you could just make a temporary assignment.  Same thing going on, no
need for a new keyword and ambiguous code.

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