Of course, skipping the try except block reveals the same message.
Only use them if you know you are going to get an error message that would be thrown that isn't a python error or you want to do something else if there is an error.
foo = 'a'
bar = 1
concat = foo + bar
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython-input-56-ef8dcb5742bb>", line 1, in <module>
concat = foo + bar
TypeError: must be str, not int
a better non-fail
try:
concat = foo + bar
except:
concat = "{}{}".format(foo, bar)
concat
'a1'