On Jun 4, 3:51 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:23:00 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Is there a function or idoim for returning an exception/traceback > > rather than just printing it to stdout? I'm running a deamon where > > stdout is going to /dev/null, and I'm not even watching it..until > > now. All the functions I found in traceback and sys seemed only to > > print the error rather than just returning it, so I resorted to this: > > Read again the docs for the traceback module. > Maybe you are looking for traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info()) or > traceback.format_exc() > > > f = tempfile.TemporaryFile(mode='w+') > > sys.stdout = f > > traceback.print_tb(sys.exc_info()[2]) > > In this case you can use StringIO instead of a temporary file, and the > file argument to print_tb instead of swapping sys.stdout > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
Thanks Gabriel. That was exactly what I was looking for. Also, I'm glad to make a connection to the StringIO class. I'm sure I will remember it the next time I need it. ~Sean
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