The value exceptions are raised with (odd behaviour?)

[Ola Natvig]

Ola Natvig wrote:
> When raising an exception with a value for instance an integer you 
> assume that when catching the exception the value can be compared with 
> other integers. That is not what happens.
> 
> try:
>     raise Exception, 12
> except Exception, number:
>     print number == 12
> # False
> 
> This is because the number variable is a exception instance and not an 
> integer.
> 
> I wonder if I'm the only one which find this behavior odd, and if anyone 
> knows if there is a way to retrieve the original initialization value of 
> the exception.
> 

I found out that it's possible to retrive the values the exception was 
initialized with through exception.args which is a tuple.

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