On: What Pythonistas Think of Ruby

[tsuraan]

Python's answer to blocks tends to be the with statement, so your example would look like

  with task('name') as t:
    # do stuff with t

It's not really the same; the task object doesn't have control over whether the block is actually run, but sometimes it is sufficient.

[fuzzyman → tsuraan]

You could almost certainly achieve that with the implementation of blocks provided by this package:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/withhacks/

[tsuraan → fuzzyman]

Wow, I've never seen that before. I'm also not sure I'd say a solution that uses bytecode rewriting is really working within the language, but that's a pretty interesting package anyhow.

[fuzzyman → tsuraan]

Well, normally I would agree - but if its entirely abstracted away in a library (and the library is well written) then it might sort-of-kind-of-maybe be ok.

Python itself does varying degrees of bytecode optimisation depending on which version you're using.

[bad_user → fuzzyman]

that's cool, thanks ... I was wondering about that