[Python-ideas] PEP 550 v2

[Stefan Krah]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 01:03:21AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> For "ContextItem" for example, we may actually be better off calling
> it "ContextKey", and have the methods be "ck.get_value()" and
> "ck.set_value()". That would get us closer to the POSIX TSS
> terminology, and emphasises that the objects themselves are best seen
> as opaque references to a key that lets you get and set the
> corresponding value in the active execution context.

+1 for "key".  One is using a key to look up an item.


> Avoiding a naming collision with decimal.localcontext() would also be desirable.
> 
> Yury, what do you think about moving the ExecutionContext name to what
> the PEP currently calls LocalContext, and renaming the current
> ExecutionContext type to ExecutionContextChain?

For me this is already a lot clearer. Otherwise I'd call it ExecutionEnvironment.



Stefan Krah