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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 08:57:09 CEST 2013

On 13 Oct 2013 16:37, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Cameron Simpson writes: > But we've got "ignore" in play already. Can't we accept that it is > somewhat evocative though clearly not perfect for everyone, and > move on? No, that is way out. We can overrule the objections, recognizing that sometimes compromise is the worst of the four possible actions (this, that, mix, wait).

Right.

For the record, this thread did prompt me to consider the new construct anew, but on reflection, I still consider it a reasonable addition to contextlib.

It substantially improves the simple cases it is intended to help with, and, if anything, makes overly broad exception suppression more obviously dubious (because the name of the construct doesn't match the consequences for multi-line suites).

Cheers, Nick.

But don't ask me to "accept" what I consider to be an idea that admits a lot of improvement.[1] Let time prove me wrong, please.

Footnotes: [1] I've said my piece about "with contextlib.ignore()"; this is not a reiteration.

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