Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 26)

[Courageous]

>And then, when you begin to flesh out your code, you would have to 
>get rid of the extraneous passes you didn't want to add (assuming 
>you are like me) in the first place. So the with-pass version 
>requires more effort, and is more verbose, for no good reason.

The reasons are related to the implementation and not the design
of Python, I believe.

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