Q: Catching any exception an printing it

[Gerrit Holl]

<quote name="Stuart Reynolds" date="951154053">
> Python allows you to do,
> 
> try:
>   if a:
>      raise SomeException()
>   else:
>      raise xyz()
> 
> except:
>   print 'There was an error'
> 
> but is it possible to print out the exception if you don't know what
> type it is? I'd like the above error message to be more useful, but the
> exception raised inside the try block could be anything. Is it possible
> to find the last exception raised?

try:
    func()
except (), msg:
    print msg

regards,
Gerrit.

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