On 2013-10-19, at 08:38 , Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> The above example, especially if extended beyond two files, begs to used in
>> a loop, like your 5 line version:
>>
>>
>> for name in ("somefile.tmp", "someotherfile.tmp"):
>> with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
>>os.remove(name
On 19 October 2013 20:47, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Sadly, all the documentation that references "suppressing" an exception, is
> misleading. Misleading enough that you convinced yourself to rename from
> ignore to suppress after reading it, even though the two are nearly
> synonymous.
You misunde
On 19 October 2013 20:47, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Thanks again for sharing the big picture: you have before, but I see you've
> evolved it slightly. Delayed error handling I've had occasion to do, but
> not yet in Python. The constrained jump pattern is interesting, but the
> example is not comp
On 10/18/2013 11:38 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
However, that's a confusion about exception handling in general, not
about the suppress context manager in particular. The same potential
for conceptual confusion exists between:
for name in ("somefile.tmp", "someotherfile.tmp"):
try:
