Python clean way to wrap individual statements in a try except block

I'm currently doing some Python automation of Excel with COM. It's fully functional, and does what I want, but I've discovered something surprising. Sometimes, some of the Excel commands I use will fail with an exception for no apparent reason. Other times, they will work.

In the VB equivalent code for what I'm doing, this problem is apparently considered normal, and is plastered over with a On Error Resume Next statement. Python does not have said statement, of course.

I can't wrap up the whole set in a try except loop, because it could "fail" halfway through and not complete properly. So, what would be a pythonic way to wrap several independent statements into a try except block? Specifically, something cleaner than:

try:
   statement
except:
   pass
try:
   statement
except:
   pass

The relevant code is the excel.Selection.Borders bit.

def addGridlines(self, infile, outfile):
    """convert csv to excel, and add gridlines"""
    # set constants for excel
    xlDiagonalDown = 5
    xlDiagonalUp = 6
    xlNone = -4142
    xlContinuous = 1
    xlThin = 2
    xlAutomatic = -4105
    xlEdgeLeft = 7
    xlEdgeTop = 8
    xlEdgeBottom = 9
    xlEdgeRight = 10
    xlInsideVertical = 11
    xlInsideHorizontal = 12
            # open file
    excel = win32com.client.Dispatch('Excel.Application')
    workbook = excel.Workbooks.Open(infile)
    worksheet = workbook.Worksheets(1)

    # select all cells
    worksheet.Range("A1").CurrentRegion.Select()
    # add gridlines, sometimes some of these fail, so we have to wrap each in a try catch block
    excel.Selection.Borders(xlDiagonalDown).LineStyle = xlNone
    excel.Selection.Borders(xlDiagonalUp).LineStyle = xlNone
    excel.Selection.Borders(xlDiagonalUp).LineStyle = xlNone
    excel.Selection.Borders(xlEdgeLeft).LineStyle = xlContinuous
    excel.Selection.Borders(xlEdgeL