Context error handling - http://pyvideo.org/video/883/decorators-and-context-managers

context_error_handling.py

class my_error_handling(object):
    def __enter__(self): pass

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
        if issubclass(exc_type, UnicodeError):
            print "annoying"
        elif issubclass(exc_type, ValueError):
            print "hrmm"
        elif issubclass(exc_type, OSError):
            print "alert sysadmin"
        else:
            print "other"
        return True
    
with my_error_handling():
    do_stuff()