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

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Fri Oct 11 20:41:32 CEST 2013

On 10/11/2013 10:19 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

On 10/11/2013 12:43 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Oct 11, 2013, at 06:27 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

Maybe to fit in with other verb-like APIs used as context managers: it's open() not opened(). open() predates context managers, but maybe we need a new convention. with ignore(FileNotFoundError): vs with ignored(FileNotFoundError): To me anyway, the latter sounds better. I'm still -0, and maybe now -1 on the idea, mostly because it encourages an anti-pattern. But, to continue to paint the shed, shouldn't it be "ignoring", to match "closing"?

Seriously, "with" is the wrong spelling for this using. It should be

while ignorning(FileNotFoundError)

Insistence on using "with" for the anti-pattern, and proper English, would require:

with ignorance_of(FileNotFoundError)

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