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Sun Jul 3 21:41:30 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-July/054601.html

> > 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).

[Michael Hudson]
> This is possible.  I just wanted to expand everyone's minds :)

Stick by your guns.  The mechanism is more general than resource
management.  Like decorators, the encapsulation of a try/finally wrapper
is completely generic and not married to the resource management
context.

Raymond

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[Python-Dev] Terminology for PEP 343