Jun 20, 2022 · Name and description only. Of course, if you don't want the whole traceback but only some specific information (e.g., exception name and description), you can still use the logging module like so:

traceback.format_exception(exception_object) If you only have the exception object, you can get the traceback as a string from any point of the code in Python 3 with:

Jan 11, 2017 · def fails(): x = 1 / 0 try: fails() except Exception as ex: print(ex) To give a brief explanation, as is a pseudo-assignment keyword used in certain compound statements to assign or alias the preceding statement to a variable.

Dec 30, 2010 · try: 1/0 except Exception as e: print e You can get the details in the manual pages linked by Ignacio in ...

Oct 20, 2015 · try: pass except Exception as e: # Just print(e) is cleaner and more likely what you want, # but if you insist on printing message specifically whenever possible... if hasattr(e, 'message'): print(e.message) else: print(e)

Aug 24, 2024 · import traceback try: int("s") except ValueError: traceback.print_exc() This produces the same print result as if there was no try-except, the difference being that this solution allows the code to continue running.

Source (Py v2.7.3) for traceback.format_exception() and called/related functions helps greatly. Embarrassingly, I always forget to Read the Source.

Jun 14, 2015 · Just put try-except over the code for which you expect an exception to occur. That code basically lies inside the loop. for a in myurls: try: #mycode except Exception as exc: print traceback.format_exc() print exc

Jul 25, 2011 · try: something() except KeyboardInterrupt: return except: fallback() There's a nice list of basic exceptions you can catch here. I also quite like the traceback module for retrieving a call stack from the exception. Try traceback.format_exc() or traceback.print_exc() in an …

Feb 14, 2011 · I very very strongly disagree with the statement, "shouldn't." You should do it sparingly. There are times when you're dealing with third party libraries (sometimes dynamically loaded!!) that have gone totally crazy with exceptions and tracking them all down can be a very painful task, and if you miss just one, you have a very very huge painful bug in your system.