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Mon May 1 15:55:23 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/064693.html

On May 1, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> 1. PEP 343, 2.5 alpha 1, 2.5 alpha 2 and the discussions here have  
> no doubt
> seriously confused the meaning of the term 'context manager' for a  
> lot of
> people (you can certainly put me down as one such person). Anyone  
> not already
> confused is likely to *become* confused if we subtly change the  
> meaning in
> alpha 3.

Don't forget that the majority of users will never have heard any of  
these discussions nor have used 2.5a1 or 2.5a2. Choose the best term  
for them, not for the readers of python-dev.

James

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[Python-Dev] More on contextlib - adding back a contextmanager decorator