"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > e is an exception object, not a Unicode object.
Er, sure, thanks for pointing that out. At first sight he should substitute "e" with "e.message" then since he tries to convert to string (for display?). Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #366: ATM cell has no roaming feature turned on, notebooks can't connect -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list