Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [Brett]
> > I think I agree with Samuele that it would be more pertinent to put all of
> > this
> > effort into trying to come up with some way to handle cleanup in a
> > generator.
>
> I.e. PEP 325.
>
> But (as I explained, and you agree) that still doesn't render PEP 310
> unnecessary, because abusing the for-loop for implied cleanup
> semantics is ugly and expensive, and would change generator semantics;
> and it bugs me that the finally clause's reachability depends on the
> destructor executing.
Yes and no. PEP 325 offers a method to generators that handles cleanup
if necessary and calls it close(). Obviously calling it close is a
mistake. Actually, calling it anything is a mistake, and trying to
combine try/finally handling in generators with __exit__/close (inside
or outside of generators) is also a mistake.
Start by saying, "If a non-finalized generator is garbage collected, it
will be finalized." Whether this be by an exception or forcing a return,
so be it.
If this were to happen, we have generator finalization handled by the
garbage collector, and don't need to translate /any/ for loop. As long
as the garbage collection requirement is documented, we are covered (yay!).
What about ...
i.__enter__()
try:
...
finally:
i.__exit__()
... types of things? Well, you seem to have offered a syntax ...
[VAR '=']* EXPR:
BODY
... which seems to translate into ...
[VAR = ] __var = EXPR
try:
BODY
finally:
__var.__exit__()
... or something like that. Great! We've got a syntax for resource
allocation/freeing outside of generators, and a non-syntax for resource
allocation/freeing inside of generators.
- Josiah
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