On 10/13/2013 05:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:57:09 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
For the record, this thread did prompt me to consider the new construct
anew, but on reflection, I still consider it a reasonable addition to
contextlib.
It substantially improves the simple cases it is intended to help with,
and, if anything, makes overly broad exception suppression *more* obviously
dubious (because the name of the construct doesn't match the consequences
for multi-line suites).
Why? Anyone can still write "try ... except".
True, but Raymond's example of
with ignore(OSError):
os.remove('somefile')
struck a chord -- I've used the try ... except version of that many times, and each time it's been a pain. I now agree
this context manager is a win.
--
~Ethan~
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