Exception not captured

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.512.1105450018.22381.python-list at python.org>,
 Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at zoran.com> wrote:

>         print SCMError is e.__class__
>         raise SystemExit
> 
> I get to the second "except" clause, and the printout is:
> /home/mikit/work/nightly/scm/common.py:3
> /home/mikit/work/nightly/scm/common.py:3
> False
> 
> How is this possible?

I suspect you meant to do:

print "SCMError is", e.__class__

The way you have it now, it's printing out the result of the "is" 
operator, which tests for identity.