About print exception message

[WaterWalk]

On Oct 9, 9:46 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar... at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 06:37:04 -0700 (PDT), WaterWalk <toolmas... at 163.com> wrote:
> >Until Python 2.5, the exception object still uses ansi string.  Thus,
> >in the following example:
>
> >f = open(u"\u6d4b.log")
>
> >Suppose the file to open does not exist, the output message of the
> >exception maybe like:
> >[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'\u6d4b.log'
>
> >This is not a clear message.
>
> I disagree.  But if you'd rather see the character (or a replacement character,
> or possibly an empty box, depending on your environment's text rendering
> capabilities), it's a bit easier than writing that big function:
>
> >>> try: open(u'\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}')
>
> ... except IOError, e: print str(e).decode('unicode-escape')
> ...
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'☺'
>

Yes, this is a more concise solution. Thank you.