Am 11.10.2013 16:47, schrieb Barry Warsaw: > On Oct 11, 2013, at 09:24 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >>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. > > I'm +0; I think it's a nice little addition that could be useful, but I don't > care enough to wait for 3.4 to delete similar code in a my own programs.
Same here. > To bikeshed though: why was `ignored` changed to `ignore`? The former reads > better to me, and I don't think *that* particular change was discussed at all > in the tracker afaict. Maybe to fit in with other verb-like APIs used as context managers: it's open() not opened(). Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
