Exception-handling

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Odd-R. wrote:

> I have come over a strange problem regarding exceptions
> This is my code:
> 
> try:
>   #some operation
> except Exception, info:
>   #some message
> except:
>   #??
> 
> When executing my code, I get to the last block here. This
> I find rather strange, because I thought Exception would catch
> all exceptions. But this is obviously not the case here.
> 
> What is this, and how can I get a hold of what causes the exception?

You can throw everything as an exception. I _think_ that is frowned upon
these days, but it is there so it will happen.

However, you can use

import sys

try:
   raise "foo"
except:
   print sys.exc_info()[1]


to get a hold on what's being caught by the exception handler.

Diez