How best to write this try/except block?

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <a8fba8$ln8$1 at panix2.panix.com>, roy at panix.com (Roy Smith)
writes:

| 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. 

this isn't suitable if you can have None values, but when
you don't, it can let you get away with writing key only once.

value = d.get(key)
if value is None:
    otherStuff()
else:
    stuff()

  -- erno