Get error message from FTPLib

[Bakes]

I am using ftplib for a project, using a try/except loop.

I would like to find out the exception, but I am a python newbie and
do not know how.

How, in a try/except loop would I find the ftplib exception?

 

[Jeff McNeil]

I am using ftplib for a project, using a try/except loop.

I would like to find out the exception, but I am a python newbie and
do not know how.

How, in a try/except loop would I find the ftplib exception?

For a bit on exception handling in general, check out the section
within the Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html.
As far as the ftplib module goes, it has an attribute named
'all_errors.' It's a tuple that contains all of the Exception types
that ftplib.FTP methods will throw. You can do something like the
following:

try:
FTP_instance.do_something()
except ftplib.all_errors, e:
handle_an_error(e)

I do something much like that in an NMS-like application I wrote.