printing error message from an Exception

[mark jason]

On Dec 10, 11:55 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
>     # By the way, IOError is not the only exception you could see.


thanks for the help Steven. Is it OK to catch Exception instead of
IOError ?
In some operation which can cause many errors ,can I use the
following?

try:
    do_something()
except Exception,e:
    display_message(e.args)
    handle_exception(e)


thanks,
mark