On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Carl M. Johnson > <cmjohnson.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:> With a little searching, you can > find similar examples of abuse that > > are centered around the with statement rather than metaclasses. People > > have made the with statement into an XML generator > > < > http://langexplr.blogspot.com/2009/02/writing-xml-with-ironpython-xmlwriter.html > > > > or an anonymous block handler > > <http://code.google.com/p/ouspg/wiki/AnonymousBlocksInPython>. >> TBH I find such abuse of 'with' much more troubling. I'm curious if you are troubled by both of these or one more than the other. Personally, the xml writer seems like a reasonable use to me. While I really don't like the anonymous block hack (either the use or the implementation). --- Bruce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20110306/a9d1aa8c/attachment.html>