converting a nested try/except statement into try/except/else

[John Salerno]

Simon Forman wrote:

> What about the version I gave you 8 days ago? ;-)
> 
> http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a80fcd8932b0733a
> 
> It's clean, does the job, and doesn't have any extra nesting.
> 
> Peace,
> ~Simon
> 

I remember that version, but I found it a little hard to follow. It 
seems like the kind of code that if I look at it again in another month 
or so, I'll have to trace through it again to figure out what's what.

But I think it was your code that made me think of using an else 
statement in the first place! :)