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.