exception handling

[Doug Stanfield]

import traceback
    try:        
        # something that will raise an exception
    except:
        traceback.print_exc()           # Print the exception

Is that what you wanted?

-Doug-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jp Calderone [mailto:exarkun at flashmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:37 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: exception handling
> 
> 
> 
>  Is there any way to catch *all* exceptions raised in a 
> try/except block *and* get a reference to the exception
> that was raised?  I basically just need to print out the
> exception, as the interpreter does when an unhandled
> exception is raised, but with extra formatting and such.
> I've tried the sys.exc_info() function, but it always
> seems to return (None, None, None) - even when it is
> being called in an except block, where it obviously
> *should* have info on an exception.
> 
>  Thanks in advance,
>   Jp
> 
> 
> 
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