diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index 5db8ce9244b5ba..7ddc9b6fb92d3f 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ def open(file, mode="r", buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None,
         result = text
         text.mode = mode
         return result
-    except:
+    except (ValueError, OSError, TypeError, ImportError, LookupError):
         result.close()
         raise
 
@@ -1619,7 +1619,7 @@ def __init__(self, file, mode='r', closefd=True, opener=None):
                 except OSError as e:
                     if e.errno != errno.ESPIPE:
                         raise
-        except:
+        except (ValueError, TypeError, IsADirectoryError, OSError):
             self._stat_atopen = None
             if owned_fd is not None:
                 os.close(owned_fd)