How do I get info on an exception ?

[Heiko Wundram]

> How do I get the "(11004, 'host not found')" part?
> More importantly, where is the answer documented that I should
> have looked?

Look at the traceback module from the Python standard library. If you
just wish to print the exception, do the following:

import traceback

try:
	nosuchobject
except:
	traceback.print_exc()

HTH!

Heiko.