How to properly ignore exceptions

Question

When you just want to do a try-except without handling the exception, how do you do it in Python?

Is the following the right way to do it?

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Answer 1

First I quote the answer of Jack o'Connor from this thread. The referenced thread got closed so I write here:

"There's a new way to do this coming in Python 3.4:

from contextlib import suppress

with suppress(Exception):
    # your code

Here's the commit that added it: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/406b47c64480

And here's the author, Raymond Hettinger, talking about this and all sorts of other Python hotness: https://youtu.be/OSGv2VnC0go?t=43m23s

My addition to this is the Python 2.7 equivalent:

from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def ignored(*exceptions):
    try:
        yield
    except exceptions:
        pass

Then you use it like in Python 3.4:

with ignored(Exception):
    # your code