On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivs...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 December 2017 at 22:35, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> [..] >> >> A new standard library module ``contextvars`` is added >> > >> > Why not add this to contextlib instead of adding a new module? IIRC >> > this was discussed relative to PEP 550, but I don't remember the >> > reason. Regardless, it would be worth mentioning somewhere in the >> > PEP. >> > >> >> The mechanism is generic and isn't directly related to context >> managers. Context managers can (and in many cases should) use the new >> APIs to store global state, but the contextvars APIs do not depend on >> context managers or require them. >> > > This was the main point of confusion for me when reading the PEP. > Concept of TLS is independent of context managers, but using word "context" > everywhere leads to doubts like "Am I getting everything right?" I think > just adding the > two quoted sentences will clarify the intent.
I'll try to clarify this in the Abstract section. > > Otherwise the PEP is easy to read, the proposed API looks simple, and this > definitely will be a useful feature. Thanks, Ivan! Yury _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
