Oops, a missing hunk from previous patches for fixing python.c

See mailing list - "[Fontforge-devel] more bug fixes" - 2013oct14
More noise reduction.

Probably might benefit with using a --verbose flag in the future.
Fix a bug when loading Layer names.

Half undo a previous commit which I am unsure as to why it was done.
(see developer mailing list thread "[Fontforge-devel] more bug fixes" for
more details - 2013oct14).