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That cleanup can be explicit when needed by using context managers. Mixing resource handling with object lifetime is a bad design choice
by mattip 7mo ago
That cleanup can be explicit when needed by using context managers. Mixing resource handling with object lifetime is a bad design choice
- 1718627440 7mo agoTell that to the C++ guys...
- cpgxiii 7mo ago> That cleanup can be explicit when needed by using context managers. It certainly can be, but if a large part of the Python code you are writing involves native objects exposed through bindings then using context managers everywhere results in an incredible mess. > Mixing resource handling with object lifetime is a bad design choice It is a choice made successfully by a number of other high-performance languages/runtimes. Unfortunately for Python-the-language, so much of the utility of Python-the-ecosystem depends on components written in those languages (unlike, for example, JVM or CLR languages where the runtime is usually fast enough to require a fairly small portion of non-managed code).