As discussed in the Python-Ideas mailing list, sometimes we want to suppress a particular kind of exception and replace it with another.
For that reason, I'd like to announce exception_guard, a context manager and decorator which catches specified exceptions and replaces them with a given exception (RuntimeError by default). https://code.activestate.com/recipes/580808-guard-against-an-exception-in-the-wrong-place/ or just https://code.activestate.com/recipes/580808 It should work with Python 2.6 through 3.6 and later. try: with exception_guard(ZeroDivisionError): 1/0 # raises ZeroDivisionError except RuntimeError: print ('ZeroDivisionError replaced by RuntimeError') See the recipe on ActiveState for links to discussions on Python-Ideas. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
