More understandable code

downloader.py

@@ -50,35 +50,35 @@ if requests.get(f"https://www.gocomics.com/{comic_id}/").status_code != 200:
 
 ### Get date of first comic
 
-first_comic = bs(
-        requests.get(
-            "https://www.gocomics.com/{}".format(
-                bs(requests.get(
-                    f"https://www.gocomics.com/{comic_id}/").content,
-                   "html.parser").find(
-                       "span", string="Read Now"
-                       ).parent.parent.parent.get("href")[1:]
-                )
-            ).content, "html.parser"
-        ).find(class_="fa-backward").get("href")[-10:]
+## Get comic homepage. If status code is not 200 (success), retry.
+status = False
+while status != 200:
+    if status != False:
+        print("Could not get home page. Retrying...")
+    home_pg = requests.get(f"https://www.gocomics.com/{comic_id}/")
+    status = home_pg.status_code
+
+home_pg = bs(home_pg.content, "html.parser") ## Convert to BeautifulSoup
+
+## Get latest comic
+status = False
+latest_url = "https://www.gocomics.com/{}".format(
+        home_pg.find("span", string="Read Now"
+                     ).parent.parent.parent.get("href")[1:])
+while status != 200:
+    if status != False:
+        print("Could not get latest comic. Retrying...")
+    ## Get "Read Now" button's href from home page, and request that
+    latest_comic = requests.get(latest_url)
+    status = latest_comic.status_code
+
+latest_comic = bs(latest_comic.content, "html.parser") ## Convert to BeautifulSoup
+
+## Get date of first comic
+first_comic = latest_comic.find(class_="fa-backward").get("href")[-10:]
 
 current_comic = first_comic
 
-"""
-That's a big chunk of code. Here's what it does:
-
-1) Get the comic home page.
-2) Get the latest comic (from the "Read Now" button)
-3) Get the first comic (from the button with the CSS class "fa-backward")
-
-The code means:
-
-Get  last  10  chars  of the href of the element with the class of "fa-backward"
-from  the  url  of  the <a> that is the parent(x3) of the span labled "Read Now"
-from the home page of the comic id.
-
-"""
-
 print(f"Start date: {first_comic}")
 
 ### Make directory to store comics in