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

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 20:17:15 CEST 2013


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>     with trap(OSError) as cm:
>         os.unlink('missing.txt')
>     if cm.exc:
>         do_something()

.. and why is this better than

try:
   os.unlink('missing.txt')
except OSError as exc:
   do_something()

?


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