Is there a way on python logging or graypy handling socket error

Question

import logging
import graypy

my_logger = logging.getLogger('test_logger')

handler = graypy.GELFUDPHandler('localhost-rng', 12201)
my_logger.addHandler(handler)

my_logger.info('Hello Graylog.')

So my problem here is that if I put host that is non existant or not setup I get an exception which looks something like this:

--- Logging error --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/logging/handlers.py", line 632, in emit self.send(s) File "/Users/stackoverflow/PycharmProjects/stackoverflow-project/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/graypy/handler.py", line 611, in send super(GELFUDPHandler, self).send(s) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/logging/handlers.py", line 690, in send self.sock.sendto(s, self.address) socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known Call stack: File "/Users/stackoverflow/PycharmProjects/stackoverflow-project/some_projects/module_logger/mb_logging.py", line 78, in logger.info("HI") File "/Users/stackoverflow/PycharmProjects/stackoverflow-project/some_projects/module_logger/mb_logging.py", line 62, in debug self.root.debug(message) Message: 'HI' Arguments: ()

So I can see that there is socket library error. My problem is that I don't it to be sdout error (or whatever it's called). I want to catch this error with try, except block, but I just cant seem to do it, probably because it UDP thing something like that?

what I tryed:

try:
    logger.debug("HI")
except:
    # this never works even if there is exception
    print('Exception')

I expect Exception block to work. Maybe I could even create a decorator around info that for example could ping to server if it response or something like that?