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

[MRAB]

On 11/10/2013 19:41, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 10/11/2013 10:19 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
>> 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"?
>
> Seriously, "with" is the wrong spelling for this using.  It should be
>
> while ignorning(FileNotFoundError)
>
> Insistence on using "with" for the anti-pattern, and proper English,
> would require:
>
> with ignorance_of(FileNotFoundError)
>
> :)
>
"Ignorance" means not knowing, but we _do_ know about FileNotFoundError.
What we want is to ignore it.