Generic Exception Handling in Python the “Right Way”

Question

Sometimes I find myself in the situation where I want to execute several sequential commands like such:

try:
    foo(a, b)
except Exception, e:
    baz(e)
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Answer 1

The best approach I have found, is to define a function like such:

def handle_exception(function, reaction, *args, **kwargs):
    try:
        result = function(*args, **kwargs)
    except Exception, e:
        result = reaction(e)
    return result

But that just doesn't feel or look right in practice:

handle_exception(foo, baz, a, b)
handle_exception(bar, baz, c, d)