> (To the best of my knowledge, there is as of 2020 no purely pythonic way to write one-lined try-blocks.) You can do this using contexlib. For example the fol

> (To the best of my knowledge, there is as of 2020 no purely pythonic way to write one-lined try-blocks.) You can do this using contexlib. For example the following in pwk: try: { print(os.listdir("/"+s.strip())) } except: pass Can be written in pure Python as: with contextlib.suppress(Exception): print(os.listdir("/"+s.strip())) (Assuming contextlib is imported, and you're okay with letting things which don't extend Exception slip through.) You could probably also make a context manager which takes a function/lambda to define how to handle exceptions etc.