Just an FYI, it is generally bad practice to not specify an exception type since that means _any_ error will be caught, even unexpected ones. At the same time, we don't want a silly error to cause the view to fail to render. I would recommend defining a logger and logging the exception.. that way we can choose to report the logged errors:

```python
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

try:
    # ...
except:
    # ...
    logger.exception()
finally:
    # ...
```

More details here: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/logging.html?highlight=logging#logging.Logger.exception