Lingua extractor silently ignores try/except blocks instead or returning an error.
diff --git a/mako/ext/linguaplugin.py b/mako/ext/linguaplugin.py
index 248fbaa..09ef560 100644
--- a/mako/ext/linguaplugin.py
+++ b/mako/ext/linguaplugin.py
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@
                 source = compat.b('if 1:') # Replace "else" with "if 1"
             elif source.startswith('elif'):
                 source = source[2:] # Replace "elif" with "if"
-            source += compat.b(' pass')
+            if source == 'try:' or source.startswith('except'):
+                source = compat.b('') # Ignore "try/except" altogether
+            else:
+                source += compat.b(' pass')
             code = io.BytesIO(source)
         for msg in self.python_extractor(
                 self.filename, self.options, code, code_lineno -1):
diff --git a/test/templates/gettext.mako b/test/templates/gettext.mako
index c174219..863b365 100644
--- a/test/templates/gettext.mako
+++ b/test/templates/gettext.mako
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 
 <p>${_("No action at a distance.")}</p>
 
-## TRANSLATOR: these blocks should be ignored during extraction
+## TRANSLATOR: nothing to extract from these blocks
 
 % if 1==1:
 <p>One is one!</p>
@@ -117,3 +117,11 @@
 % while random.randint(1,6) != 6:
 <p>Not 6!</p>
 % endwhile
+
+## TRANSLATOR: for now, try/except blocks are ignored
+
+% try:
+<% 1/0 %>
+% except:
+<p>Failed!</p>
+% endtry