Generic catch for python

January 1, 2023 by Tarik

Exceptions are already printed by default before program termination. If you want to send the error somewhere else (not print it) you can do this:

try:
    something()
except Exception as e:
    send_somewhere(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info()))
    raise # reraises the exception

note that this format using the as keyword is for python > 2.6. The old way was:

except Exception, e: