Getting Extended Exception Information

[Cy Edmunds]

In an exception handler I can get the error message by just converting the
Exception to a string. How do I get the entire message including the call
stack information that I see printed out with an uncaught exception?

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

In an exception handler I can get the error message by just converting the
Exception to a string. How do I get the entire message including the call
stack information that I see printed out with an uncaught exception?

what you are looking for is probably:

import traceback

try:
...
except:
stackdump = "".join(traceback.format_exception(sys.exc_type,
sys.exc_value, sys.exc_traceback))
print stackdump

 

[Duncan Booth]

what you are looking for is probably:

import traceback

try:
...
except:
stackdump = "".join(traceback.format_exception(sys.exc_type,
sys.exc_value, sys.exc_traceback))
print stackdump

Please note that sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value and sys.exc_traceback have
been deprecated for a long time now (they are not thread-safe). Use
sys.exc_info() instead.

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

Please note that sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value and sys.exc_traceback have
been deprecated for a long time now (they are not thread-safe). Use
sys.exc_info() instead.

oh, good to know - I've been copy-and-pasting these lines around for an
even longer time

 

[John Lenton]

oh, good to know - I've been copy-and-pasting these lines around for an
even longer time

come the revolution, copy-and-paste programming---