Can someone comment on my code?

[Chris Burn]

Hi, I've been writing perl, shell, c programs for a while but I thought 
I should move on to python.

So this is my first real venture in python. Basically I work on an app 
that auto saves to your home dir every 10 mins, but I keep my working 
files in a dir elsewhere. So this script is intended to be run after a 
crash, it searches for the last autosave and the last normal save in the 
current dir. It then copies the autosave to the current dir with _rec 
stuck on the end.

Anyway, it works, but I'm new to error handling in python and it would 
be good to know if I'm handling errors correctly and also if there are 
easier ways to do things or conventions I should be keeping to? It seems 
to be a bit long to me.

Oh it needs to run on python 1.5.2

Thanks
Chris

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