On 2007-07-05, Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> You may need the traceback module to get at the error message, if
>> trying to read e.message can fail.
>>
>> Something like this mess here: ;)
>>
>> ...
>> except Exception, e:
>> etype, evalue, etb = sys.exc_info()
>> ex = traceback.format_exception_only(etype, evalue)
>> message = ex[0].partition(':')[2].strip()
>> raise etype, message+". Sorry!", etb
>>
>> Note that the above will break for SyntaxError (who's message
>> contains more than one line) and any kind of exception that
>> doesn't inherit from Exception.
>
> That's actually similar to what I was using in Kid already.
>
> The problem is that there are some Exceptions which cannot be
> instantiated with a single string argument, such as
> UnicodeDeocdeError. Please try the above with "unicode('\xe4')"
> instead of the dots. Instead of re-raising the
> UnicodeDecodeError, you will get a TypeError because of this
> problem.
Crud. After my third answer, I'll finally understand the
question. Unfortunately, I only had two in me.
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