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

[John Salerno]

Simon Forman wrote:

> I'm sorry to hear that.  I thought it was cleaner and more
> understandable than that.  May I indulge in explaining it a bit?  I
> can, perhaps, make it clearer.

Thanks for the explanation. I find that with a little concentration, 
it's not that it's hard to follow the code, just that I feel like I will 
need to 're-concentrate' each time I come back to it, because of the 
different variables being used in different places.

But I like the idea of making the try/except do very little, if not just 
one thing, so I'm going to keep studying it! :)