[Python-ideas] use context managers for new-style "for" statement

Sat Feb 21 04:53:38 CET 2009

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>Bruce Frederikson:
>>>> for i in closing(gen(x)):
>>>> if you want the generator closed automatically.
>> That doesn't really improve on what we have now:
>> with closing(gen(x)) as g:
> for i in g:
>> The proposed syntax puts to much on one-line and unnecessarily
> complicates another one of Python's fundamental tools.

In addition to Bruce's other followup, saving a level of indention does
have some utility. That's not enough by itself, of course.
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