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[Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (was r45544

[Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (was r45544 - peps/trunk/pep-0343.txt) [Python-Dev] Why are contexts also managers? (was r45544 - peps/trunk/pep-0343.txt)Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 21 14:31:48 CEST 2006
Nick Coghlan wrote:

> During implementation, the meanings of "context" and "context manager" were 
> swapped from the meanings in the approved PEP, leading to the current 
> situation where decimal.Context is actually not, in fact, a context.

That's rather disappointing. I *liked* the way that
decimal.Context was a context. Was there a conscious
choice to swap the terms, or did it happen by accident?

--
Greg
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