[Python-ideas] 'where' statement in Python?

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Alex Light <scialexlight at gmail.com> wrote:
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> MRAB wrote:
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>> Why use 'as'? Why not:
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> i would use as because this whole where clause acts very similarly to a
> context manager in that it sets a variable to a value for a small block

No, the idea is for the indented suite to be a perfectly normal suite
of Python code. We want to be able to define functions, classes, etc
in there. Inventing a new mini-language specifically for these clauses
would be a bad idea (and make them unnecessarily hard to understand)

For the record, I've updated the PEP* based on the discussion in this
thread (I switched to "given" as the draft keyword due to the
Haskell/SQL semantic confusion for the "where" keyword - we've had
that discussion before, I just forgot about it last night when putting
the PEP together)

*Diff here: http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-3150.txt?r1=82992&r2=83002

Cheers,
Nick.

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