Exception handling....dumb question?

[Flexx]

Ben Finney writes:
 > You should catch *specific* exceptions that you know you can deal with at that point in the code.
 >
 >     import logging
 >     try:
 >         foo = 12 / 0
 >     except ZeroDivisionError, e:
 >         print "You *knew* this was going to happen: '%s'" % e
 >         logging.error(str(e))
 >
 > This allows all other exceptions to propogate back through the call
 > stack.

import sys, logging
try:
     foo = 12/0
except:
     e = str(sys.exc_value)
     print "You *knew* this was going to happen: '%s'" % (e)
     logging.error(e)