[Python-Dev] Scope, not context? (was Re: PEP 550 v3 naming)

francismb francismb at email.de
Thu Aug 24 16:01:13 EDT 2017


Hi,

On 08/24/2017 03:52 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I worry that that's going to lead more people astray thinking this has
>> something to do with contextlib, which it really doesn't (it's much more
>> closely related to threading.local()).
> 
If it's hard to find a name due collision with related meanings or
already taken buckets then I would suggest just inventing a new word. An
artificial one.

What do you thing?

Thanks,
--francis



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