Context Manager - Ignore Exceptions and Others

ignored_context_manager.py

"""Not sure where this came from, but I suspect 
it was from a python talk about making beautiful 
code."""
from contextlib import contextmanager


@contextmanager
def ignored(*exceptions):
    """Ignore a provided list of exceptions."""
    try:
        yield
    except exceptions:
        pass

# for other context handler functions, yield can
#  return a value, ie:
tempfilenames = ['test1.txt', 'test2.txt', 'error1.txt']
@contextmanager
def create_test_folder():
    """Creates a test directory structure."""
    testfolder = tempfile.mkdtemp(suffix='test')
    test_text = 'temporary test file'
    for fname in tempfilenames:
        with open(path.join(testfolder, fname), 'w') as f:
            f.write(test_text)
    try:
        yield testfolder
    finally:
        for fname in tempfilenames:
            os.remove(path.join(testfolder, fname))
        os.rmdir(testfolder)