Most pythonic way to handle exceptions in functions

I have a tiny web-server written in Python 3 using http.server which calls the function translate() in method do_GET() like this:

class httpd(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

  def do_GET(self):
    self.wfile.write(bytes("%s" % translate(var[0]), "utf-8"))

Now in this translate() function I have several conditional statements and try and except blocks roughly like this:

def translate(param):
  try:
    # do something
  except SomeError as some_err:
    print("Error: " % some_err)
    return ""

  if True:
    try:
      # do something
    except SomeOtherError as some_other_err:
      print("Error: " % some_other_err)
      return ""
    except SomeThirdError as some_third_err:
      print("Third error: " % some_third_err)
      return ""
  else:
    # additional try and except blocks which print an error and
    # return an empty string

The code above is simplified, but in principle, I return an empty string if an exception happens and thus my web server returns nothing to client if an exception happens. It works fine, but maybe there is a more pythonic way to handle this?

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