Avoiding "Too broad exception clause" warning in PyCharm

I am reluctant to turn off warnings as a matter of principle.

In the case presented, you know well what the exception is. It might be best to just be specific. For example:

try:
    raise RuntimeError("Oops")
except RuntimeError as e:
    print(e, "was handled")

will yield "Oops was handled".

If there are a couple of possible exceptions, you could use two except clauses. If there could be a multitude of possible exceptions, should one attempt to use a single try-block to handle everything? It might be better to reconsider the design!

Not sure about your PyCharm version (mine is 2019.2), but I strongly recommend disabling this PyCharm inspection in File> Settings> Editor> Inspections and type "too broad". In Python tab, deselect "too broad exceptions clauses" to avoid those. I believe this way PyCharm would show you the correct expression inspection

From a comment by Joran: you can use # noinspection PyBroadException to tell PyCharm that you're OK with this exception clause. This is what I was originally looking for, but I missed the option to suppress the inspection in the suggestions menu.

import logging

logging.basicConfig()

# noinspection PyBroadException
try:
    raise RuntimeError('Bad stuff happened.')
except Exception:
    logging.error('Failed.', exc_info=True)

If you don't even want to log the exception, and you just want to suppress it without PyCharm complaining, there's a new feature in Python 3.4: contextlib.suppress().

import contextlib

with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
    raise RuntimeError('Bad stuff happened.')

That's equivalent to this:

try:
    raise RuntimeError('Bad stuff happened.')
except Exception:
    pass