On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:52 AM, R. David Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > I think 'trap' would be much clearer.
+1. Short and sweet, and just ambiguous enough that you don't leap to the conclusion that the error is ignored. I agree that "suppress" is basically a synonym for "ignore"; trap at least *implies* some kind of control flow change, which is what's needed to prevent misconceptions. Personally, I would rate "catch" higher than "trap" because it further implies that it is catching a thrown exception, but would compromise to "trap" if that'll end the thread sooner. ;-) > What about making the context > manager provide the trapped exception, in a fashion similar to > what assertRaises does? Sadly, that won't work, since context managers provide a value *before* the block is executed, not after. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com