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Add a context manager for calling log.failure when code fails #12188

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Right now we have a pattern of doing this:

log = Logger()

try:
    applicationCode(parameter)
except BaseException:
    log.failure("while doing xyz with {parameter}", parameter=parameter)
else:
    proceed()

This is verbose, error-prone, and kinda reads backwards. Instead, something like this would be nicer:

log = Logger()
with log.whenThereIsAnyProblemLogThis("while doing xyz with {parameter}", parameter=parameter) as operation:
    applicationCode(parameter)
if operation.succeeded:
    proceed()

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