'Type overflow management

I need to convert a random number into a bytes class, with no error but a saturation if it is bigger than 255. I did:

a = 3250 
try:
    b = bytes([a]) 
except:
    b = bytes([255])

But it seems really complex. Is there a better way to do that?

python

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