How to generally handle exceptions?

[Nick Bower]

Is there any possible way to tell what exception has been raised in
python-ldap without catching every single possibile type of
_ldap.LDAPError?

It would be really nice in example included in the python-ldap
documentation if an exception was caught in the following general way:

try:
  <connect, bind and search, as is currently shown>
except:
  <display type of exception and its description>

at the moment, there is no example code with exceptions in the
documentation or distribution and i can't figure out how to catch one
from the exception references provided without trying to catch every
single possibility.

thanks alot, nick.