[Tutor] capturing error msg in exception

[Steve Willoughby]

On 27-Jun-10 10:12, Adam Bark wrote:
> On 27 June 2010 17:47, Payal <payal-python at scriptkitchen.com

>     c. What is the correct Python of writing,
>     except  as e: print 'Msg : ' , e        # Capturing all exceptions

Since exceptions are (should be?) subclasses of Exception, you can do:

except Exception as e:

> I think the 'as' syntax is only available in Python 3.x

It's in Python 2 as well.  At least I see it in 2.6.4, probably earlier 
too (but I'm not sure ATM how early it showed up).