Q: Catching any exception an printing it

[Skip Montanaro]

    Stuart> but is it possible to print out the exception if you don't know
    Stuart> what type it is? I'd like the above error message to be more
    Stuart> useful, but the exception raised inside the try block could be
    Stuart> anything. Is it possible to find the last exception raised?

Check the docs for the sys.exc_info() function.

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