Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> FYI, there are still use cases for clearing the exception state in an
> __exit__ method, that might justify allowing a true return from __exit__ to
> suppress the error. e.g.:
Maybe __exit__ could suppress exceptions using a new idiom:
def __exit__(self,*exc):
if exc and not last and issubclass(exc[0],self.type):
# suppress the exception
raise None
This seems clearer than "return True".
Shane
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