[issue8602] documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous

New submission from Matt Wartell : This is related to http://bugs.python.org/issue8601 "bz2.BZ2File should support "with" protocol per PEP 343" The documentation at http://docs.python.org/library/bz2.html states: "This module provides a comprehensive interface for the bz2 compression libra

[issue8602] documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous

Éric Araujo added the comment: Now that #8601 is closed, would you mind providing a doc patch explaining the lack of context manager protocol support and its reason? -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___

[issue8602] documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous

Matt Wartell added the comment: Per request, I have attached a context diff for both bz2.txt and 3.0.txt suitable for http://docs.python.org/library/bz2.html and http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html respectively. The modification in bz2.txt may border on redundant and overl

[issue8602] documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous

Éric Araujo added the comment: I’d remove the lines “Specifically it does not define the :meth:`__enter__` and :meth:`__exit__` methods required by the :keyword:`with` statement”, since they add unnecessary length to a simple note. Please provide one patch per branch, and diff from the top le

[issue8602] documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous

Éric Araujo added the comment: Also, don’t bother with 3.0: It is not supported by python-dev anymore. Make documentation patches for py3k and trunk, and they’ll be backported to the stable branches 3.1 and 2.6. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8602] documentation of bz2 module mildly erroneous

Georg Brandl added the comment: Now present in all maintained branches. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _