exception arg

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn8749le.d0.mn at banger.iol.it>,
Mirko Nasato <mn at altern.org> wrote:
>
>>>> 1/0
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo
>>>> try:
>...     1/0
>... except ZeroDivisionError, arg:
>...     if arg == "integer division or modulo":
>...             print "This is what I expect."
>...     else:
>...             print 'Unexpected. "arg" is "%s".' % arg
>... 
>Unexpected. "arg" is "integer division or modulo".

Try plain

   print arg

or

  print type(arg)


Hint: you're getting confused by the %s forced string conversion.  After
you've done the previous two steps, try

   if str(arg) == "integer division or modulo":
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