returning traceback strings

[holger krekel]

Chris Liechti wrote:
> Matthew Boedicker <mboedick at mboedick.org> wrote in
> > 
> > This is the best workaround I was able to come up with:
> > 
> > import cStringIO
> > import traceback
> > 
> > def print_exc_str():
> >     buf = cStringIO.StringIO()
> >     traceback.print_exc(file=buf)
> >     return buf.getvalue()
> 
> try that:
>   ''.join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info()))

yeah. why not take the easy road :-)

    holger