Thomas Jollans wrote: > On 26/08/11 21:56, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Is there any way to catch an exception and bind it to a name which will >> work across all Python versions from 2.5 onwards? >> >> I'm pretty sure there isn't, but I thought I'd ask just in case. > > It's not elegant, and I haven't actually tested this, but this should > work: > > try: > ... > except (ValueError, KeyError): > error = sys.exc_info()[2] Great! Thanks for that, except I think you want to use [1], not [2]. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
