Even more coding style cleanup

Fixing some more pylint warnings:

W1401: Anomalous backslash in string
W0623: Redefining name 'name' from outer scope
W0702: No exception type(s) specified
E0102: name: function already defined line n

Change-Id: I5afcdb4771ce210390a79981937806e30900a93c
diff --git a/subcmds/sync.py b/subcmds/sync.py
index d4637d0..8e9477a 100644
--- a/subcmds/sync.py
+++ b/subcmds/sync.py
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@
       try:
         try:
           self._times = pickle.load(f)
-        except:
+        except IOError:
           try:
             os.remove(self._path)
           except OSError: