Expanding blind-except to contextlib.suppress

[jenstroeger]

Following up on pylint-dev/pylint#11718, and somewhat related to blind-except and suppressible-exception.

While cleaning up a larger code base I noticed the occasional use of contextlib.suppress() with a “broad exception”:

with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
    file.seek(0)
...

While seek() isn’t documented to raise any exception, I noticed this pattern in several places.

Would it not make sense to consider this a case of “Catching too general exception” (pylint W0718) as part of blind-except or suppressible-exception as well, and shouldn’t ruff point this out?

Thanks!

[ntBre]

Yeah, I think this could be a reasonable expansion to the rule. It came up before in #19306.