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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 17:20:30 CEST 2013

On 14 October 2013 00:05, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:50:07 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

That's the way this works (unless you think this is such a disastrous addition that you want to appeal to Guido to strip me of my responsibilities as contextlib maintainer and go hunting for a new one). Wow... I don't think challenging others to "strip you of your responsibilities" is a reasonable way to address criticism. And for the record, it's not my objection; several other core developers have said -1 too: Ezio, Serhiy, Giampaolo, etc.

When people keep complaining after I have posted, as the module maintainer, saying:

================== "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)."

Then, yes, I think challenging people to try to get me booted as module maintainer for contextlib is a precisely proportionate response. Getting to decide what colour the bikeshed is painted (and if we even have a bikeshed at all) is what being a module maintainer means.

I had previously agreed it was a borderline decision. I stated that I had reviewed that decision. I stated that I hadn't changed my mind. Yet people kept complaining. That's a pretty clear statement that they don't trust my judgement.

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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