On Jan 30, 8:18 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> try:... raise Exception(u"gewöhnlich ähnlich üblich") > ... except Exception, e: > ... print e.message > ... > gewöhnlich ähnlich üblich Ah, so that's what "If there is a single argument (as is preferred), it is bound to the message attribute" means. Through some imbecility I failed to understand it. Thank you.
> If you're writing to a file you still have to encode explicitly. Yes; I know that. It wasn't what to do with the unicode object that confused me, it was how to get it in the first place. Much obliged, Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list