Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Hell, I largely wrote PEP 377 to try to get out of having to document >> these semantic problems with the with statement - if I'm having trouble >> getting *python-dev* to grasp the problem, what hope do other users of >> Python have? > > Hell, if you can't come up with a real use case, why bother? :-) I figured I'd try for a solution that didn't offend my sense of aesthetics before caving in and working out how to better document the limitations of the status quo :) > Perhaps you could address my worry about introducing an obscure > BaseException subclass that will forever add to the weight of the list > of built-in exceptions in all documentation? Since this is really just a matter of the aesthetics of the underlying design from my point of view rather than solving a real world problem, I don't have a good answer for you. In the absence of reports of actual problems caused by this limitation, should I consider the PEP rejected? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------
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