[Python-Dev] Acquire/release functionality

[Greg Ewing]

holger krekel <pyth@devel.trillke.net>:

> I haven't found a way to make assignments optional (in recent
> experiments).  Is this possible with Python's Parser? 

It should be possible to do it the same way as
expressions/assignments are done now, i.e.
parse it as

  with_stmt ::= 'with' <expr> ['=' <expr>] ':' <suite>

and sort it out in the compiler.

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