how to enable error message in exec??

[Michael Hudson]

ed_tsang at yahoo.com writes:

> Hi 
> 
> My current script, say script A, need to execute some python code in
> other file, say script B, by using exec() function. But if there is
> any syntax error in script B, the exec() returns, but I would not
> know what kind of syntax error is that. How can I enable this kind
> of execution gives the same level of error reporting capability as
> if the python code is run thorugh in the same file?

Does traceback.print_exc() do what you want?

Eg:

/>> try:
|..  exec "a()=1"
|.. except SyntaxError:
|..  print "hello"
|..  traceback.print_exc()
|..  print "bye"
\__ 
hello
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 2, in ?
SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
bye

HTH,
M.

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