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Sat Oct 12 06:05:20 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129457.html

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