We’ve been having some fun with Click and Python decorators at work.

We had a situation where we wanted to

1. transform any Exception to a click.ClickException, so they would be rendered nicely, and
2. catch one particular exception, and retry the function that raised it with a different parameter value as a fallback.

We got the first behaviour quickly into a decorator. We then realised that the second could also be done nicely with a decorator, too.

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