Fixed #27818 -- Replaced try/except/pass with contextlib.suppress().

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/middleware.py b/django/contrib/auth/middleware.py
index f0102c4455..0b3365cb3a 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/middleware.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/middleware.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from contextlib import suppress
+
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib import auth
 from django.contrib.auth import load_backend
@@ -89,10 +91,8 @@ class RemoteUserMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
         """
         backend_str = request.session[auth.BACKEND_SESSION_KEY]
         backend = auth.load_backend(backend_str)
-        try:
+        with suppress(AttributeError):  # Backend has no clean_username method.
             username = backend.clean_username(username)
-        except AttributeError:  # Backend has no clean_username method.
-            pass
         return username
 
     def _remove_invalid_user(self, request):