Zero Piraeus added the comment: 'Ignore' and 'suppress' are not synonyms:
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asuppress > forcibly put an end to. > "the rising was savagely suppressed" > synonyms: subdue, repress, crush, quell, quash, squash, stamp out https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asuppress > refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally. > "he ignored her outraged question" > synonyms: disregard, take no notice of, pay no attention to [...] I know that ncoghlan and rhettinger (and maybe others) are annoyed by what they see as bikeshedding, but there is a genuine issue here. To summarize the objection raised on python-dev, the problem is that this: with ignore(SomeException): do_something() do_something_else() ... is easily misunderstood as ignoring every occurrence of SomeException throughout the with-statement. If you understand how context managers work, it's not difficult to see why that's not the case, but the name strongly suggests the incorrect reading over the correct one. I don't think 'suppress' is perfect. At the risk of further enraging those who are already tired of this discusion, I'll re-propose 'silence', which IMO comes closest to describing what is actually going on: https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asilence > cause to become silent; prohibit or prevent from speaking. > "the team's performance silenced their critics" > synonyms: quiet, hush, shush I also quite like 'quash' from the list of 'suppress' synonyms above, but that's probably just because it's a nice word to say :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19266> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
