[Python-ideas] except expression

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com>wrote:

>
>
>> I also find it disturbing that people are actually considering
>> to use this expression form as a way to do quick&dirty suppression
>> of exceptions.
>>
> This is a relatively common construction (as a survey of my own small
> codebase indicates).  Quick, yes.  How dirty it is depends entirely on
> context, (and how readable it can be made) and is up to the programmer's
> judgment.


Isn't it what contextlib.suppress() [1] was invented for?  Do we need yet
another way to express the same?

http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.suppress
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