On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> Hell, I largely wrote PEP 377 to try to get out of having to document >>> these semantic problems with the with statement - if I'm having trouble >>> getting *python-dev* to grasp the problem, what hope do other users of >>> Python have? >> >> Hell, if you can't come up with a real use case, why bother? :-) > > I figured I'd try for a solution that didn't offend my sense of > aesthetics before caving in and working out how to better document the > limitations of the status quo :) > >> Perhaps you could address my worry about introducing an obscure >> BaseException subclass that will forever add to the weight of the list >> of built-in exceptions in all documentation? > > Since this is really just a matter of the aesthetics of the underlying > design from my point of view rather than solving a real world problem, I > don't have a good answer for you. > > In the absence of reports of actual problems caused by this limitation, > should I consider the PEP rejected?
Yes -- sorry for your wasted efforts. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
