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Python contextlib.suppress for clean exception ignoring

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suppresscontextlibexceptionignoretry-except

Problem

Try/except/pass blocks are noisy and hide intent when you just want to ignore specific exceptions.

Solution

Use contextlib.suppress to cleanly ignore expected exceptions:

from contextlib import suppress

# Instead of:
try:
os.remove('temp.txt')
except FileNotFoundError:
pass

# Use:
with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
os.remove('temp.txt')

# Multiple exception types:
with suppress(FileNotFoundError, PermissionError):
os.remove('temp.txt')

Why

suppress() makes the intent clear: we know this might fail and we don't care. It's more readable than try/except/pass.

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