As suggested in PR removed "pass" from lines astroquery/gaia/core.py, method 'def get_status_messages'
@@ -932,7 +932,9 @@ class GaiaClass(TapPlus):
print(line.decode("utf-8").split('=', 1)[1])
except ValueError as e:
print(e)
- pass
+ except IndexError as e:
+ print("Archive down for maintenance")
+
except OSError:
print("Status messages could not be retrieved")
