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

[Victor Stinner]

CONGRATULATION! This thread reached 100 mails, it's now time to
summarize it into a PEP. Is there a candidate to write it?

If no PEP is written, the thread will never die and people will
continue to feed it.

Victor

2013/10/11 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:39:48 +0200 (CEST)
> raymond.hettinger <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f014b5f0773f
>> changeset:   86209:f014b5f0773f
>> user:        Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>
>> date:        Thu Oct 10 22:39:39 2013 -0700
>> summary:
>>   Rename contextlib.ignored() to contextlib.ignore().
>
> I don't think that this contextlib.ignore() thing has been discussed a
> lot.
>
> Ezio was -1 on the tracker, and Eric Smith was -0. I'd like to add my
> -1 too. This is a useless addition (the traditional idiom is perfectly
> obvious) and makes reading foreign code more tedious by adding
> superfluous API calls.
>
> Please consider reverting.  There is absolutely zero use case for this
> that wasn't already solved by the traditional "except ...: pass" idiom.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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