Please translate this easy snip of C++ to Python

[Steve Holden]

"Martijn Faassen" <m.faassen at vet.uu.nl> wrote in message
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> Rainer Deyke <root at rainerdeyke.com> wrote:
> > "Jay O'Connor" <joconnor at cybermesa.com> wrote in message
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> >> 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
>
> Something must be wrong with some Usenet feed somewhere. Your post got
> cut off in the middle. I suspect that this was due to
>
Look, cut this out. I'm channelling Tim again. For the last time, there IS
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