redirecting stdout

[Gerhard Häring]

Marco Herrn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am redirecting my output to a file via:
> sys.stderr= open('out.txt','a', 0)
> 
> All exceptions are handled like this:
> 
> try:
>   ...
> except Exception, detail:
>         print detail
> 
> That works. But I am missing the line numbers. How can I get to the line
> numbers in exceptions?

Check out the 'traceback' module. Here's a short example:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/traceback-example.html

-- Gerhard