How to print an exception in Python?

For Python 2.6 and later and Python 3.x:

except Exception as e: print(e)

For Python 2.5 and earlier, use:

except Exception,e: print str(e)

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The traceback module provides methods for formatting and printing exceptions and their tracebacks, e.g. this would print exception like the default handler does:

import tracebacktry:    1/0except Exception:    traceback.print_exc()

Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):  File "C:\scripts\divide_by_zero.py", line 4, in <module>    1/0ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

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In Python 2.6 or greater it's a bit cleaner:

except Exception as e: print(e)

In older versions it's still quite readable:

except Exception, e: print e

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