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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sun Oct 13 04:45:06 CEST 2013


On 10/12/2013 06:50 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> Were you only displaying the same short form above?
>
> Yes.   The specific example given was:
>
>      with ignore(OSError):
>           os.remove(somefile)

That is certainly nicer than the multi-line form.

Argh.  Okay, okay, I'm +1.  If they're not gonna read the docs it doesn't matter what we name it, and in it's proper 
setting it certainly reads well.

Now, if you'll pardon me, I need to go add that to my 2.x collection of goodies.  ;)

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~Ethan~


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