A decorator that takes in an exception type and handles it

exceptionDecorator.py

class BaseException(Exception):
    """ This is a basic exception """

class NotBasicException(BaseException):
    """ This is not a basic exception """

def args_decorator(ExceptionType, msg, status_code):
    def decorate(func):
        print(f'Decorating {func}')

        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            try:
                return func(*args, **kwargs)
            except ExceptionType as error:
                print(f'Catching {ExceptionType}')
                print(error)
                
                print(f"Returning {msg}, {status_code}")
                return msg, status_code 

        return wrapper
    return decorate


@args_decorator(BaseException, 'This was not a basic exception!', 500)
def some_endpoint(some_arg):
    try:
        b = some_arg + 2
        a = some_arg * 2
    except TypeError as error:
        raise NotBasicException(*error.args)

    return a + b

print(some_endpoint(42))
print(some_endpoint('Whee'))