Suppress Exceptions

New in Python 3.4.

Recipes

from contextlib import suppress


# This context manager is reentrant.
with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
    os.remove('somefile.tmp')
with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
    os.remove('someotherfile.tmp')

# Multiple Exceptions
with suppress(FileNotFoundError, RuntimeError):
    os.remove('somefile.tmp')

This code is equivalent to:

try:
    os.remove('somefile.tmp')
except FileNotFoundError:
    pass
try:
    os.remove('someotherfile.tmp')
except FileNotFoundError:
    pass

try:
    os.remove('someotherfile.tmp')
except (FileNotFoundError, RuntimeError):
    pass

References