[Python-Dev] cpython: Rename contextlib.ignored() to contextlib.ignore(). (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 11:43:31 CEST 2013

[We are discussing issue #15806.]

2013/10/11 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:

I don't think that this contextlib.ignore() thing has been discussed a lot.

If we decide to keep the feature, I would prefer a less generic name: contextlib.ignore_excep(), contextlib.ignore_exception() or contextlib.ignore_exceptions().

Ezio was -1 on the tracker, and Eric Smith was -0. I'd like to add my -1 too. This is a useless addition (the traditional idiom is perfectly obvious) and makes reading foreign code more tedious by adding superfluous API calls.

Please consider reverting. There is absolutely zero use case for this that wasn't already solved by the traditional "except ...: pass" idiom.

The purpose of the new context manager is to reduce the number of line of code? It goes a little bit against a Zen Principle:

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Victor

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