[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3 naming

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Tue Aug 22 22:12:16 EDT 2017


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> As I understand the key APIs and constraints of the proposal better, I'm
> leaning towards FooContext (LC) and FooContextStack (EC), for some value of
> Foo that I haven't determined yet. Perhaps the latter can be shortened to
> just ContextStack (since the Foo part can probably be guessed from context.
> :-)

I guess I'll put in another vote for DynamicContext and
DynamicContextStack. Though my earlier suggestion of these [1] sank
like a stone, either because no-one saw it or because everyone hated
it :-).

We could do worse than just plain Context and ContextStack, for that matter.

-n

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2017-August/046840.html

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