[issue15806] Add context manager for the "try: ... except: pass" pattern

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

Hmm, the __exit__ method was doing exact matches by exception type, so KeyError wouldn't match LookupError or Exception.

There are probably a number of ways to fix this, but it may be easiest to use the builtin exception catching mechanisms:

class Ignore:
    ''' Context manager to ignore particular exceptions'''

    def __init__(self, *ignored_exceptions):
        self.ignored_exceptions = ignored_exceptions

    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, exctype, excinst, exctb):
        if exctype is not None:
            try:
                raise
            except self.ignored_exceptions:
                return True

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