Python Feature Request: Add the "using" keyword which works like "with" in Visual Basic

[James Stroud]

jamadagni wrote:
>> I like this one for some reason. Just the "using self" would save hella
>> typing in a lot of classes. I would favor a convention with leading dots
>> to disambiguate from other variables. This wouldn't conflict with, say,
>> floats, because variable names can't begin with a number.
> 
> Excellent. Now we don't have to worry about the "first applicable
> instance" etc. Any member that begins with a dot will have the context
> governer auto-prefixed by the parser. This means that nested using
> statements should be like follows:
> 
> using self:
> __using .quit:

Under what circumstances would this not mean "using self.quit"? I think 
one  must be refreshingly imaginative to infer that I was proposing that 
we add "." to variable names in general. The idea would be that it 
specifies to which names the using statement applies.

James