General decorator to wrap try except in python?

Question

I\'d interacting with a lot of deeply nested json I didn\'t write, and would like to make my python script more \'forgiving\' to invalid input. I find myself writing involve

Answer 1

Since you're dealing with lots of broken code, it may be excusable to use eval in this case.

def my_eval(code):
  try:
    return eval(code)
  except:  # Can catch more specific exceptions here.
    return ''

Then wrap all your potentially broken statements:

item['a'] = my_eval("""myobject.get('key').get('subkey')""")
item['b'] = my_eval("""myobject.get('key2')""")
item['c'] = my_eval("""func1(myobject)""")