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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 01:37:57 CEST 2013

On 15 Oct 2013 08:54, "Barry Warsaw" <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Oct 12, 2013, at 03:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >The module maintainer (Nick) approved the name change from his original >preference for ignored(). That should had been the end of it. As a general plea, please be sure to record the rationale and decisions in the appropriate place, such as the tracker and/or commit message. I think it's fine for such minor decisions to be made in high bandwidth forums such as IRC, it's also incumbent on the participants to be mindful of the larger community of core developers and users. Not doing so makes our process less transparent, puts legitimacy at risk, and alienates users and developers who may not be privileged to those out-of-band discussions.

Agreed, although in this case there wasn't much additional rationale beyond "Raymond and I decided we preferred the shorter spelling, so we changed it" :)

I figured it was a minor enough change that the commit message was adequate documentation, but I acknowledge it would have been better to create a new issue with its own NEWS entry to more explicitly track the change.

Cheers, Nick.

Cheers, -Barry

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