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

[Eric V. Smith]

On 10/11/2013 12:43 PM, 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.

I'm still -0, and maybe now -1 on the idea, mostly because it encourages
an anti-pattern.

But, to continue to paint the shed, shouldn't it be "ignoring", to match
"closing"?

Eric.