contextlib.suppress

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contextlib.suppress

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contextlib.suppress(exc_type) is essentially a context manager that calls __exit__ returning True for matched exceptions, absorbing them. The classic use case is `with suppress(FileNotFoundError): os.remove(path)` - you don't care if the file was already gone. It makes intent explicit: you're not forgetting to handle the error, you're deliberately ignoring it. Prefer it over a bare try/except/pass block because it names the expected exception and avoids an empty except body that looks like a bug.