Nandakumar Chandrasekhar <navanitach...@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear Folks,
>
> In previous versions of Python I used to use e.message() to print out
> the error message of an exception like so:
>
> try:
> result = x / y
> except ZeroDivisionError, e:
> print e.message()
>
> Unfortunately in Python 2.6 the message method is deprecated.
>
> Is there any replacement for the message method in Python 2.6 or is
> there any best practice that should be used in Python from now on?
You can just use the __str__() method of the BaseException object for
this. So instead of
print e.message
You can write
print str(e)
which in turn is equivalent to
print e
For more details see PEP 352 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0352/)
--
Arnaud
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
