[Python-ideas] revisit pep 377: good use case?

Wed Feb 29 20:29:44 CET 2012

Craig Yoshioka wrote:
> I've tried classes, decorators, and passing the conditional using 'as', 
> as suggested by Michael, so I disagree that with is not suitable here 
> since I have yet to find a better alternative. If you want I can give 
> pretty concrete examples in the ways they aren't as good.

I would be interested in your concrete examples.
As far as conditionally skipping the with body, where would that code 
go? In __enter__? How would it know whether or not to skip?
~Ethan~