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The problem with this is, for example, if you except Exception as e, and e is an IOError, you get e.errno, e.filename, and e.strerror, but apparently no e.message (at least in Python 2.7.12). If you want to capture the error message, use str(e), as in the other answers.

epalm
– epalm

2017-04-19 18:28:35 +00:00
Commented Apr 19, 2017 at 18:28
@epalm What if you catch the IOError before Exception?

Herii
– Herii

2020-01-12 14:21:25 +00:00
Commented Jan 12, 2020 at 14:21
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@HeribertoJuárez Why catch special cases while you can simply cast it to string?

HosseyNJF
– HosseyNJF

2020-04-19 18:13:51 +00:00
Commented Apr 19, 2020 at 18:13

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like so
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