contextlib.suppress()
contextlib.suppress() is a Python function in the Contextlib Module category. A context manager that suppresses specified exceptions. The syntax is contextlib.suppress(*exceptions). Parameters: *exceptions — exception classes. Returns: Context manager. A typical example: from contextlib import suppress
with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
os.remove("temp.txt") # No error if file missing. A close sibling is contextlib.contextmanager(), which a decorator that creates a context manager from a generator function. A close sibling is contextlib.redirect_stdout(), which redirects sys.stdout to a file or StringIO. A close sibling is contextlib.redirect_stderr(), which redirects sys.stderr to a file or StringIO. A close sibling is contextlib.closing(), which a context manager that calls thing.close() on exit. More about this category: Context manager utilities — contextmanager, suppress, ExitStack. Related Contextlib Module entries: contextlib.contextmanager(), contextlib.redirect_stdout(), contextlib.redirect_stderr(), contextlib.closing(), contextlib.nullcontext(), contextlib.ExitStack(). This page is part of the free Python Reference documentation covering 978+ functions, methods, and modules with examples and parameter details.