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Fri Jun 25 23:31:45 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/101085.html

On 25/06/2010 19:35, Michael Foord wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've put a recipe up on the Python cookbook for creating APIs that 
> work as both decorators and context managers and wonder if it would be 
> considered a useful addition to the functools module.
>
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577273-decorator-and-context-manager-from-a-single-api/

Actually contextlib would be a much more sensible home for it.

Michael

>
> I wrote this after writing almost identical code the second time for 
> "patch" in the mock module. (The patch decorator can be used as a 
> decorator or as a context manager and I was writing a new variant.) 
> Both py.test and django have similar code in places, so it is not an 
> uncommon pattern.
>
> It is only 40 odd lines (ignore the ugly Python 2 & 3 compatibility 
> hack), so I'm fine with it living on the cookbook - but it is at least 
> slightly fiddly to write and has the added niceness of providing the 
> optional exception handling semantics of __exit__ for decorators as well.
>
> Example use (really hope email doesn't swallow the whitespace - my 
> apologies in advance if it does):
>
> from context import Context
>
> class mycontext(Context):
>     def __init__(self, *args):
>         """Normal initialiser"""
>
>     def start(self):
>         """
>         Called on entering the with block or starting the decorated 
> function.
>
>         If used in a with statement whatever this method returns will 
> be the
>         context manager.
>         """
>
>     def finish(self, *exc):
>         """
>         Called on exit. Arguments and return value of this method have
>         the same meaning as the __exit__ method of a normal context
>         manager.
>         """
>
> @mycontext('some', 'args')
> def function():
>     pass
>
> with mycontext('some', 'args') as something:
>     pass
>
> I'm not entirely happy with the name of the class or the start and 
> finish methods, so open to suggestions there. start and finish *could* 
> be __enter__ and __exit__ - but that would make the class you 
> implement *look* like a normal context manager and I thought it was 
> better to distinguish them. Perhaps before and after?
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael Foord
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