[Python-Dev] PEP 343 - Abstract Block Redux

[Paul Moore]

On 5/17/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > [Greg Ewing]
> >
> >>I still think it's conceptually cleaner if the object
> >>you use to access the resource is created by the
> >>__enter__ method rather than being something pre-
> >>existing, but I'm willing to concede that PBP here.
> >
> >
> > PBP? Google finds "Python Browser Poseur" but no definition of IRC
> > slang. Proven Best Practice? Pakistani Border Patrol? Puffing Billy
> > Posse?
> 
> Previously Belaboured Point? (Just guessing from context here, but if I'm right,
>  that's one acronym I'm going to have to remember. . .)

Practicality Beats Purity, surely...?
Paul