How can I obtain the exception object on a generlized except statement?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Chris Allen schrieb:
> I am confused on one aspect of exception handling.  If you specify the
> exception object type to match in an except statement it is possible
> to also obtain the exception object itself, but I can't figure out how
> to get the exception object when I don't specify a match.
> 
> for example:
> 
>>>> try: urlopen('http://www.google.com')
>>>> except socket.error, msg:
>>>>     print str(msg)
> 
> this works and I can do what I like with the exception object (msg).
> but I can't do this with a simple except statment.
> 
>>>> except msg:
> 
> this won't work because it will think msg is the type to match
> 
>>>> except ,msg:
> 
> syntax error
> 
>>>> except *,msg:
> 
> syntax error
> 
>>>> except (),msg:
> 
> Hmm I didn't try that one before I started this post.  It doesn't give
> me a syntax error.  I'll experiment.
> Even if the above syntax works, is this the way to do this?  It seems
> sort of funky.
> 
> How do I do this?  Thanks.

pydoc sys.exc_info


Diez