title: Alternative to Repetitive Try Except Blocks
body: <p>In a script I wrote to scrape some data there is a chunk of code that looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>try:
    prize = row.find_element(By.XPATH, './div[contains(@class, "divCell")][3]').text
  except:
    prize = ''
  try:
    field = row.find_element(By.XPATH, './div[contains(@class, "divCell")][4]').text
  except:
    field = ''
  try:
    country = row.find_element(By.XPATH, './div[contains(@class, "divCell")][5]/span[1]/a').get_attribute('title')
  except:
    country = ''
  try:
    city = row.find_element(By.XPATH, './div[contains(@class, "divCell")][5]/span[2]').text
  except:
    city = ''
  try:
    winner = row.find_element(By.XPATH, './div[contains(@class, "divCell")][6]/span[2]/span').get_attribute('data-highlightingclass')
  except:
    winner = ''
  try:
    runnerup = row.find_element(By.XPATH, './div[contains(@class, "divCell")][7]/span[2]/span').get_attribute('data-highlightingclass')
  except:
    runnerup = ''
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm new to Python and wondering if there are any alternative or more succinct ways to accomplish this?</p>