[Tutor] anecdote in the workplace about try,except clause

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

Since we have established that data doesn't go out of scope...

> > > for line in file:
> > >     try:
> > >         data, garbage = string.split(line, ':')
> > >     except ValueError:
              data = line

should fix it, no?

The comment about data going out of scope confused me but 
now that thats been cleared up the simple fix above should 
work (my trivial tests so far suggest it does...)

Alan g