try/exception - error block

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.12587.1407077774.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> How to go about this is at "Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), 
> Example" at http://sscce.org/

It says there, "most readers will stop reading by 100 lines of code".  I 
guess I have a short attention span relative to "most readers", because 
my tl;dnr threshold is a lot shorter than that.

The other advantage to coming up with a minimal example is that often 
the exercise of cutting your problem down to a minimal example is enough 
to allow you to figure it out for yourself :-)