At 12:44 PM 5/11/2005 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > FYI, there are still use cases for clearing the exception state in an > > __exit__ method, that might justify allowing a true return from > __exit__ to > > suppress the error. e.g.: > >Maybe __exit__ could suppress exceptions using a new idiom: > > def __exit__(self,*exc): > if exc and not last and issubclass(exc[0],self.type): > # suppress the exception > raise None > >This seems clearer than "return True".
Nice, although perhaps a little too cute. But it's moot as Guido has vetoed the whole idea. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
