Log Exception with Backtrace

[Chris Rebert]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Heston James - Cold Beans
<heston.james at coldbeans.co.uk> wrote:
> Afternoon Guys,
>
> I'm currently logging exceptions within my applications like so:
>
> try:
>     #do something....
> except Exception, error:
>     # Log the exception.
>     self.logger.error("Exception Occurred: (%s)" % str(error))
>
>
> This is quite fine, however, sometimes I get very vague error message thrown
> at me which don't help a great deal. How can I log the full exception and
> backtrace as if it were thrown to stderr and I wasn't catching it?

Use format_exc() in the 'traceback' module to get a string for the
current stack trace (and exception) and log that.

Cheers,
Chris
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>
> Cheers all,
> Heston
>
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