Python gets a new ignored context manager
I was reading What makes Python Awesome? presentation and saw the following construction in slide 22:
with ignore(OSError):
os.remove(somefile)
This construction is more concise without being less readable than the typical
try ... catch ... pass
. I had never seen that ignore
before and got curious
about where is it defined. It isn’t a CPython keyword neither part of the
contextlib module.
After some search I found that an ignored
(note the trailing d)
context manager was recently added to the upcoming python 3.4.