How best to write this try/except block?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Roy Smith wrote:
> I've got a dictionary d, which may or may not have a value I'm looking
> for.  If it does, I want to do a few things.  If it doesn't, I want to
> do a few other things.  I could write:
>
> try:
>     value = d[key]
>     foo = stuff (value)
> except KeyError:
>     foo = otherStuff (key)

    try:
        value = d[key]
    except KeyError:
        foo = otherStuff(key)
    else:
        # found value, do stuff
        foo = stuff(value)

> The alternative would be something like:
>
> foundIt = 0
> try:
>     value = d[key]
>     foundIt = 1
> except KeyError:
>        foo = otherStuff (key)
>
> if (foundIt):
>    foo = stuff (value)
>
> but that's exceptionally ugly.  Any suggestions for how better to
> write this?

by following the Python style guide? ;-)

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