sys.exc_info() into string

[Magnus]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Magnus wrote:
>> 
>> in my program I am catching exceptions that I might have missed by using
>> something like:
>> 
>> try:
>>         doMyStuff()
>> except:
>>         type = sys.exc_info()[0]
>>         syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_EMERG, "My program: unexpected error" +
>>         type)
>> 
>> The thing is that I can not figure out how to make "type" into a string
>> above so I can use it for e.g. syslog(). Is there an easy way of doing
>> this?
> 
> try:
>     1/0
> except Exception, ex:
>     print "Error: %s" % ex
> 
> Good enough??
> 
> -Peter


Thanks both of you. I'm still learning Python and issues that are trivial to 
solve for some isn't trivial for me yet. I'm converting from C++ and Java 
and perhaps in a few months I might be a more experienced Python 
programmer.

Thanks,
Magnus