Printing exceptions

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8i2p3i$3pd$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, Arinté  <jamarijr at my-deja.com> wrote:
>My embedded python app sets an exception string, python can easily
>print this error using
>print sys.exc_value
>but, when I try to post it in my MessageBox
>pos.alert(sys.exc_value)
>the application crashes, I even tried putting the failing part in a
>try..catch block and it still crashed (What the...)
>Of course
>pos.alert("testing this messagebox") works fine

Do you get any kind of error message when your application crashes?

I'm suspecting this probably has something to do with the slightly weird
reference counting with exceptions.  In addition, you're supposed to use
sys.exc_info() because it's thread-safe.

Here's some code that will extract a safe string from the exception that
you should then be able to pass into your MessageBox:

import sys, traceback
try:
  ....
except:
  s = apply ( traceback.format_exception, sys.exc_info() )
  pos.alert(s)
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