Logging exceptions to a file

[Stephen Hansen]

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>  > > So far so good, but I'd like to record (possibly unhandled) exceptions
> > > in the logfile.
> > > * Do I need to explicitly trap every single exception ?
> > > * In that case, won't I get 2 log messages on the console (as
> > > illustrated in the code below:
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Check out sys.excepthook, something vaguely like:

import sys

def handle_exceptions(exctype, value, traceback):     logging.exception("An
unhandled exception was detected.")

sys.excepthook = handle_exceptions
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