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

Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Sat Apr 14 11:37:59 EDT 2007


samjnaa at gmail.com wrote:
> In Visual Basic there is the keyword "with" which allows an object-
> name to be declared as governing the following statements. For
> example:
> 
> with quitCommandButton
>  .enabled = true
>  .default = true
> end with
> 
> This is syntactic sugar for:
> 
> quitCommandButton.enabled=true
> quitCommandButton.default=true
> 
> This can be very useful especially in GUI programming when we have to
> type the same object name in line-after-line. 

q = quitCommandButton
q.enabled = true
q.default = true



	Mel.




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