Best way to trap errors in ftplib?

[Mark McEahern]

Peter A.Schott wrote:

>Using ftplib.FTP object for a project we have here to upload/download files.  I
>know that I can wrap everything in try/except blocks, but I'm having trouble
>getting the exact error messages out of the Exceptions.
>  
>
Consider using the traceback a la:

try:
    [... whatever ...]
except:
    import sys, traceback
    t, v, tb = sys.exc_info()
    # or use StringIO to "print" the traceback to and then log *that*
    traceback.print_tb(tb)

// m