How do I find what kind of exception is thrown.

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 06:50 pm, Antoon Pardon wrote:

> Python 2.6.4 on a solaris box.
> 
> I have a program in which all kind of excptions can be thrown and caugth.
> The main program is something like below:
> 
> try:
>     do_stuff
> except Exception:
>     log unexpected trouble
> 
> Now I found the following in the logs: [Errno 131] Connection reset by peer
> 
> This is a problem I would like to catch earlier however I have no idea what
> exception I would have to catch in order to treat this case.


try:
    do_stuff
except Exception as err:
    print err, type(err)



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