[Tutor] question about try & except

[nephish]

Thanks Hugo,
Now that i know where to look....
appreciate your help.
-sk


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 21:27 -0600, Hugo González Monteverde wrote:
> Yes,
> 
> You can catch an error object along with the exception, as in:
> 
> try:
>      fileo = open("nofile")
> except IOError, e:
>      print "Alas...", e
> 
> As you see, the error object has a string representation equal wo what 
> normally the python interpreter prints...
> 
>  >>>
> Alas... [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'nofile'
>  >>>
> 
> 
> Hope it helps. It took me originally a long time to know this trick, as 
> it's kinda buried in the docs.
> 
> Hugo
> 
> 
> nephish wrote:
> > Hey there,
> > 	i am writing some (for me) pretty complicated stuff for work that
> > really needs to work. 
> > 	i have looked at exception handling in the Learning Python book.
> > and i am using some try / except statements. 
> > 	the problem is, that even though my script does not crash, i dont know
> > the exact error. 
> > 	is there a parameter that will allow me to use try and except but that
> > will also pring out the traceback statements that python usually does to
> > the terminal?
> > 
> > 	thanks
> > 
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