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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:05:00 +0200
From: "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de>
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Unfortunately, no. :(

It should work out of the box with no "let me replace all my try-except 
statements in my 10 million line code base".

On 12.08.2015 17:32, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:
>> is there something like a hook that a Python module could register to in
>> order to 'trace' the entering and leaving of arbitrary try blocks?
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
> However, it sounds like context managers might do what you want. You
> would just need to instrument your try blocks by adding with blocks.