Ruby blocks finally coming to python? (was Re: python-dev Summary for 2005-04-16 through 2005-04-30

[Ville Vainio]

Just wanted to draw the attention by changing the subject line - see
parent and especially:

    Tony> ----------------
    Tony> PEP 340 Proposed
    Tony> ----------------

    Tony> In the end, Guido decided that what he really wanted as a solution to
    Tony> `The Control Flow Management Problem`_ was the simplicity of something
    Tony> like generators that would let him write locking() as something like::

    Tony> def locking(lock):
    Tony> lock.acquire()
    Tony> try:
    Tony> yield
    Tony> finally:
    Tony> lock.release()

    Tony> and invoke it as something like::

    Tony> block locking(lock):
    Tony> CODE

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