Python: try statement in a single line

Question

Is there a way in python to turn a try/except into a single line?

something like...

b = \'some variable\'
a = c | b #try statement goes here
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Answer 1

The problem is that its actually a django model.objects.get query i am trying to test. the .get returns an error if no data is found... it doesn't return None (which annoys me)

Use something like this:

print("result:", try_or(lambda: model.objects.get(), ''))

Where try_or is an utility function defined by you:

def try_or(fn, default):
    try:
        return fn()
    except:
        return default

Optionally you can restrict the accepted exception types to NameError, AttributeError, etc.