Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in SysLogHandler.emit().

Lib/logging/handlers.py

@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
         The record is formatted, and then sent to the syslog server. If
         exception information is present, it is NOT sent to the server.
         """
+        try:
             msg = self.format(record)
             if self.ident:
                 msg = self.ident + msg
@@ -893,7 +894,6 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
             # Message is a string. Convert to bytes as required by RFC 5424
             msg = msg.encode('utf-8')
             msg = prio + msg
-        try:
             if self.unixsocket:
                 try:
                     self.socket.send(msg)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in
+  SysLogHandler.emit().
+ 
 - Issue #22665: Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to
   shutil.__all__.