How do you assign an exception to a local variable in Python 2.5?

Question

In Python 2.6+, you can handle exceptions like this:

  try:
    # stuff
  except Exception as e:
    return 'exception %s' % type(e)

What is the equivalent in 2.5?

Sevier

Answer 1

Like this :

try:
    # stuff
except Exception, e:
  return 'exception %s' % type(e)

Carmel

I don't think you need to call str(), because you are already doing the interpolation using %s, 'exception %s' % type(e) will work just fine – Marshallmarshallese

Edited my question as well. :) – Sevier