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Sun Jul 3 21:29:07 CEST 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-July/054600.html

On 3 Jul 2005, at 18:25, Josiah Carlson wrote:

> Just because not all cars are used as vehicles, does that mean that 
> cars
> are not vehicles?

No, but it means calling all vehicles "cars" is dumb.

> There may be cases where the object being managed is not a resource
> per-se, but that doesn't mean that the mechanism is misnamed as a
> 'resource manager'; it's just the most common use case that any of us
> have managed to think of (as of yet).

This is possible.  I just wanted to expand everyone's minds :)

Cheers,
mwh

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