can't tell if the connection is success

[SmartTransp]

I have try to check if the connection was OK
and it's working by using this

connection = routeros_api.RouterOsApiPool(IP,user,pass)
print (connection.connected )
api = connection.get.api() ---> I notice that here I get sometimes exceptions , but I can't catch it

but all the time I get "False"( when the router is online and also when the router is offline )
why ?

How can I check if the conneciton is "Alive"?
how do read the "wrong pass" \ Timeout exception ?

did I miss something ?

[argoA]

You can use a try-except block to catch any exceptions.

try:
   conn = routeros_api.RouterOsApiPool(IP, USER, PASS)
   api = conn.get_api()
except Exception as e:
   print(e)