catching all exceptions

[Steve Purcell]

Arne wrote:
> 
> with this I think I can catch all predefined exception classes, because
> Exceptions is the base class for all other exceptions, but I realy want
> to know which derived exception class was raised (and also the
> stack-trace).
> 
> Is there (simple) way to do that in python (1.5.2)?

Yes.

try:
   something
except:
   exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
   # Then write to database.

-Steve

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