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

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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