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

[Zero Piraeus]

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On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:45:59AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> [...] if the CM provides the value before, and the with block accepts
> it, it can then have the exception added to it:
> 
>     with trap(OSError) as cm:
>         os.unlink('missing.txt')
>     if cm.exc:
>         do_something()

Is there some advantage to this over

    try:
        os.unlink('missing.txt')
    except OSError as exc:
        do_something()

I thought the whole point was to replace code that would otherwise
contain 'except: pass' with something slightly more concise. Once you
expose the exception, it becomes just an uglier version of a try/except
block, as far as I can see.

 -[]z.

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