accessing detail about Exceptions

[Steve Purcell]

Bill Seitz wrote:
> I'm pretty new to Python, but my books are pre-v2. Is there any good example
> code anywhere for catching exceptions? I'm particularly interested in
> accessing the "associated value" info, without having trapped a particular
> type of exception (in other words, I want to catch with a generic "except:"
> if possible, not "except ValueError:"...)

Look at 'exc_info()' in the 'sys' module:

   try:
       something_or_other()
   except:
       exc_type, exc_value, traceback = sys.exc_info()

The exception value you want is 'exc_value' in this case.

-Steve

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