Please translate this easy snip of C++ to Python

[Martijn Faassen]

Rainer Deyke <root at rainerdeyke.com> wrote:
> "Jay O'Connor" <joconnor at cybermesa.com> wrote in message
> news:3A7ECEAB.DB6F8648 at cybermesa.com...
>> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>>
>> > Better make that 'except None'.  Unqualified 'except' clauses are
> generally
>> > a bad idea.  In this case, you really don't want to
> catch...'ComputerExplodingError'.
>>
>> I hadn't seen that exception raised yet....is it new?  What do you
>> usually do to handle it?

> ComputerExplodingError is one of the "hidden" exceptions of the Underground
> of Pythonic

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