Error

[Michael Hudson]

Thomas Thiele <thiele at muc.das-werk.de> writes:

> I have some code with a try and except
> 
> try:
> 
> 	function_that_rises_many_types_of_exceptions()
> except:
> 	print "error, but I don't know what was happend!"
> 
> 
> I use except without any argument to catch all kind of exceptions.
> But how can I get the type of exception without having to write down all
> exceptions? 
> 
> Is there function like GetLastException() ?

In the except: block, look at sys.exc_info():

>>> try:
...  raise RuntimeError, "hiya!"
... except:
...  print sys.exc_info()
... 
(<class exceptions.RuntimeError at 80b3b88>, 
 <exceptions.RuntimeError instance at 8129950>, 
 <traceback object at 80ce3e0>)

After the except: block has finished, you might want to look at
sys.last_*, but I think you want the sys.exc_* ones...

HTH,
Michael

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