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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list