Peter A. Schott wrote:
> I know there's got to be an easy way to do this - I want a way to catch the
> error text that would normally be shown in an interactive session and put that
> value into a string I can use later. I've tried just using a catch statement
> and trying to convert the output to string, but this doesn't always work. I
> really don't have programs complex enough to do a lot of specific catching at
> this point - I just want to know:
> 1. something failed
> 2. here's the error output/traceback
If you just want to catch exceptions and print a traceback, use the
traceback module. This is handy for example if you are processing a
number of items and don't want a failure in one to abort the whole loop:
import traceback
for work in thingsToDo:
try:
doSomeWork(work)
except:
traceback.print_exc()
If you want more control over the exception info - for example to put it
in a string instead of printing it - look at the other functions in the
traceback module.
Kent
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