[Tutor] Getting the real exception clause

[Dave Angel]

On 06/16/2013 04:26 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> '''I'm using general Exception to print out what the exception is
> until I learn them, but
> it will print out "[Errno 2] No such file or directory" in this case,
> when the real
> exception I'd need to use in an except clause is FileNotFoundError.
> How do I get the
> exception I need to use in the except clause from the more English-like message?
> '''
>
> #Using C:\Python33\python.exe on Win 7 in c:\python33\jimprogs
> try:
>      fh = open('nosuchdirectory/text/truthyfalsey.txt')
>      for line in fh:
>          print(line,end='')
>      fh.close()
> except Exception as err:
>      print(err)
>

Mark is correct.  The best way to print out the exception type and 
description is to not use try/except, or at least such a base class as 
Exception.

But if you have some other reason to do it your way, then just look at 
the type of err.

print( type(err), err)


-- 
DaveA