Exception and finally question

[Erik Max Francis]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> Hm, how would you catch all exceptions raised as strings (e.g., raise
> "ho", "hum")
> and print both string and 2nd arg? Do I have to dig with inspect?
> It might be convenient if the system would convert such exceptions to
> a standard one,
> so we could write e.g.,
>     except  OldStringException, e:
>         print e, e.args
> and see the particular string and also a message arg.

The way I handled them in EmPy was to do an except Exception, e: ... and
if that got passed up, do an except: e = sys.exc_type.

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