[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax

[Samuele Pedroni]

From: "Samuele Pedroni" <pedronis@bluewin.ch>
>
> you're right, you would also get this idiom for iterators that support also
the
> 'with' protocol:
>
> with myfile = auto_closing_file('blah.txt', 'rb'):
>   for line in myfile:
>    ...
>

With Guido's 'do', you could define an iterclose():

do iterclose(open('blah.txt','rb')): (line):
   ...

Btw, the two snippets illustrate quite well the different evolutive directions'
on the table.