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Use this with extreme caution, since it is easy to mask a real
programming error in this way!
+Each exception clause must have at least one line of executable code
+in the block. Comments are not executable code. If you want the
+exception clause to do nothing, use the \keyword{pass} statement.
+
The \keyword{try} \ldots\ \keyword{except} statement has an optional
\emph{else clause}, which must follow all except clauses. It is
useful to place code that must be executed if the try clause does not