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Sat Oct 12 19:18:49 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129476.html

On 12/10/2013 05:05, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 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.
>
Perhaps "leave_on" would be more accurate.

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