get_traceback

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Jun 4, 12:23 pm, half.ital... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a function or idoim for returning an exception/traceback
> rather than just printing it to stdout?  I'm running a deamon where
> stdout is going to /dev/null, and I'm not even watching it..until
> now.  All the functions I found in traceback and sys seemed only to
> print the error rather than just returning it, so I resorted to this:
>
> def get_traceback():
>         import traceback, tempfile
>         stdout = sys.stdout
>
>         f = tempfile.TemporaryFile(mode='w+')
>         sys.stdout = f
>
>         traceback.print_tb(sys.exc_info()[2])
>         error = f.read()
>         f.close()
>
>         sys.stdout = stdout
>         return error
>
> Whats the right function?!?  Thanks.
>
> ~Sean

I use the traceback module as you do and I usually have it email the
traceback to me if there's an error. You could also have the script
redirect stdout to a file object.

Mike