On Mar 31, 2020, at 03:06, Jimmy Thrasibule <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> But if you use a context manager which silences the exception, like
>> contextlib.suppress() or unittest.TestCase.assertRaises(), it is easy to
>> do too.
>> 
>>     was_not_raised = False
>>     with my_context():
>>           do_something_sensitive()
>>           was_not_raised = True
>>     if was_not_raised:
>>         print("We're all safe.")
> 
> That is indeed a way to workaround my use case. I do still find a
> with/else more elegant.

It might help your proposal to just show a small concrete and realistic example 
of how this workaround parallels the workaround for not having for/else, and 
how your proposed change would let you improve your code’s readability in 
exactly the same way as for/else. At least for me, it’s always been easier to 
show a newcomer to Python the point of for/else with a nice example than to try 
to explain the semantics and why they’re useful, and I assume the same would be 
true here.
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