[Python-Dev] cpython: Rename contextlib.ignored() to contextlib.ignore().
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sat Oct 12 06:05:20 CEST 2013
On 10/11/2013 07:47 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Nick Coghlan writes:
>
> > (RDM is also right that the exception still has the effect of
> > terminating the block early, but I view names as mnemonics rather
> > than necessarily 100% accurate descriptions of things).
>
> This is just way too ambiguous for my taste. I can't help reading
[snippers]
> How about
>
> with contextlib.break_on(ExceptionIDontFeelLikeHandlingProperly):
> stmt1
> stmt2
> stmt3
>
> This is not 100% accurate Pythonically (there's no loop to break
> here), but it does describe what the context manager does more
> accurately, and it does effectively break out of the 'with' control
> structure.
+1 (if we have to have it)
While I agree that mnemonics are helpful in the right circumstances, these aren't them, not for this name. We aren't
/just/ ignoring the exception, the exception is having a very real effect -- it's terminating the with block.
--
~Ethan~
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