On 10/11/2013 09:43 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Oct 11, 2013, at 06:27 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

Maybe to fit in with other verb-like APIs used as context managers:
it's open() not opened().

open() predates context managers, but maybe we need a new convention.

with ignore(FileNotFoundError):

vs

with ignored(FileNotFoundError):

To me anyway, the latter sounds better.

The practice I follow is to use present tense, singular, unless there's a really good reason not to. Makes remembering a lot easier:

  was it ignore? ignoring? ignores? ignored?

Answer: ignore.

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~Ethan~

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